Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 06:18:09 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <199508312018.GAA07756@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> `talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX. >If you're logged in on cuaa0 "talk peter ttya0" won't work either. >If you're distinguishing them by the last two letters, why not do what >SCO does and call them "ttyd0" and "ttyD0" or something? Mixing up two >mechanisims for separating the namespace is asking for trouble. cua* has been used for a long time. Bruce
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