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Re: Devicename conventions
- From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:54:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Devicename conventions
- References: <31060.1017848832@www46.gmx.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:47:12PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote:
>Hello,
>
>does someone know wether there exists a document where I can find the
>devicename differences between windows and Linux/Unix.
>
>For example:
>To program the serial port with Cygwin the devicename for Windows must be
>/dev/com1 and on Linux /dev/ttyS0.
/dev/ttyS0 should work fine on cygwin, too. It's not yet documented, though.
>So I want to know which names the other devices should have for example the
>keybord?
Look in the online documentation at http://cygwin.com/: "Special filenames" .
>Is there a document where I can read this or doesn't this make any sense?
>Can I also try the Linux conventions?
Asking if you can "try" something doesn't make a lot of sense. You can always
try things. Trying is the best way to learn, too.
cgf
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