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Date:      Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:02:04 +0100
From:      Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
To:        Eddie Fry <eddie@Wicked.eaznet.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: creating devices
Message-ID:  <3.0.2.32.19970802140204.006af880@wrcmail>
In-Reply-To: <200008011733.KAA02033@Wicked.eaznet.com>

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At 10:33 01/08/00 -0700, Eddie Fry wrote:
>I've looked high and low for this, but can't seem to figure it out.
>
>How do I create device files?

The native program is "mknod". FreeBSD is friendly & nice and provides
"./MAKEDEV" in the /dev directory for the ease of busy sysadmins.

Robin.

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