On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0006110645270.4937-100000@fiona.home>, Frederick Bruc
> kman writes:
> >On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> >Make that tty02, or whatever the modem detected as: com2 -> tty02.
> >
> >
> >
> Um -- isn't com2 tty01?  DOS devices have 1-origin names; Unix devices 
> uses 0-origin.

fredb@fiona-> grep ^com /var/run/dmesg.boot
com0 at pnpbios0 index 14 (PNP0501)
com0: io 3f8-3ff, irq 4
com0: ns16550a, working fifo


and that's tty00. Don't ask _me_ why NetBSD uses com-anything. :-)


Frederick