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From: hurf@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Hurf Sheldon)
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Subject: Re: VaxStation II Serial Port
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 21:12:39 EST
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In article <10365@felix.UUCP> russell@ucdavis.UUCP (Michael Russell) writes:
>We recently upgraded from 1.2 to 2.0-1 on our VaxStation II.  Even though
>there is a bitmap on the system, the user prefers to login using the
>serial port.  Under 1.2, the device was called /dev/ttycp, and because it
>was not in /dev/MAKEDEV, I had to call DEC to get the major and minor
>device numbers...

	DEC went to a new nomenclature for everything in /dev - I hope there
 was a good reason because it is a pain as far as the /dev/ttys are concerned.
 (I understand & agree with the magtape renaming)


	The major/minor is 38, 0 - it is documented in /sys/vax/conf.c - not
	necessarily the most obvious place. It may also be in release notes
	or the installation guide but I don't recall seeing it.
hurf
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