On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:44:46PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005.10.07 21:19:58 +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> | On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:44:24 -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | 
> | > # acorn26 acorn32 algor alpha amd64 amiga arc arm bebox cobalt dreamcast
> | > # evbmips evbppc evbsh3 hp300 hp700 hpcmips hpcsh i386 ibmnws macppc mipsco
> | > # mmeye mvmeppc pmppc prep sandpoint sgimips sh5 shark sparc sparc64
> | > ttyC="%com_chr%"
> | 
> | Why is com(4) /dev/ttyC? on those platforms? The manpage mentions only
> | /dev/tty0? in the FILES section, which is confusing. /etc/remote also has
> | only /dev/dty0? , which is also confusing.
> 
> On those plataforms there are links like:
> /dev/tty00 -> /dev/ttyX1
> /dev/tty01 -> /dev/ttyX2
> 
> Or something similar.

On alpha, there aren't.

pavel@beta:~$ ls -l /dev/tty00
ls: /dev/tty00: No such file or directory
pavel@beta:~$ ls -l /dev/dty00 
ls: /dev/dty00: No such file or directory
pavel@beta:~$