From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 13:41:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA27606 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:41:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu (scheme.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA27577 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 7405 invoked by uid 27268); 15 Oct 1997 20:32:30 -0000 Date: 15 Oct 1997 20:32:30 -0000 Message-ID: <19971015203230.7404.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Alan Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jacques Hugo Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damn, damn, damn ... getting confused here. In-Reply-To: jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za on 10/15/1997 to questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG <344476E5.31DFF4F5@wired.ctech.ac.za> References: <344476E5.31DFF4F5@wired.ctech.ac.za> X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jacques Hugo, on Wed 10/15/1997, wrote the following: > > Hi there ... hope you can help. > > What is the difference between a device like > /dev/vn0 and /dev/vn0c ?? > > What does the 'c' mean? > > Thanks. > > -Jacques IT is a character device, rather than a block device. I understand the distinction between raw and cooked (old terminolgy ?), but besides tty's, is there any other form of "cooked" devices ? jay -- Join the FreeBSD Revolution! http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick