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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why /dev/dsk/* and no /dev/tty/*?
Message-ID: <10010@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Apr 89 07:57:25 GMT
References: <3757@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3757@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>... what's wrong with having SOME sort of /dev/t/whatever arrangement?

Nothing at all, so long as you fix up the handful of utilities that
"know" about /dev/tty* names.