Devicename conventions

[Christopher Faylor]

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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