In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0006110850470.4937-100000@fiona.home>, Frederick Bruc
kman writes:
>On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0006110645270.4937-100000@fiona.home>, Frederick B
>ruc
>> 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. :-)

Ah -- I was referring to the port that, say, the BIOS or dual-booted 
DOS system would refer to as com2.

		--Steve Bellovin