Re: serial callout devices

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:03:38 +0100 (GMT)


Hi David.

> I've got a short memory; just why are the cua devices officially
> obsolete now? Why not just leave the cua devices in and avoid
> years of `stty doesn't work on my machine anymore' reports.

What for, when that's so easy to fix...

Q> cd /dev
Q> for N in 0 1 2 3 ; do \
Q> rm -f cua$Z ; \
Q> ln -s ttyS$Z cua$Z ; \
Q> done

Best wishes from Riley.

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