Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:17:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc remote Message-ID: <20030505201526.O666@znfgre.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200305052137.h45LbhQV012306@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Log:
> > Add traditional BSD names (sio[0-3]) to the finger-friendly com[1-4]
> > entries so that you can do things like 'tip sio1' without having
> > to remember the DOS equivalent.
>
> NetBSD calls them tty[a-z]; we've always called them cuaa[0-9]+; Linux
> calls the /dev/cua[0-9]+; Solaris calls them /dev/cua/[a-z]. Who's to
> say what's traditional?
I have no objections to adding more aliases. I considered using cuaa[0-3],
but personally I have always found that harder to type, and the idea here
is "finger friendly."
If others want to add more aliases, feel free.
Doug
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