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Re: /dev/cua? Vs /dev/ttyS? (was: Re: co-existance of pppd and mgetty ?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Tue May 14 04:42:52 1996

From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: tonyn@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au (Tony Nugent)
Date: 	Mon, 13 May 1996 18:12:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605122157.HAA03287@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au> from "Tony Nugent" at May 13, 96 07:57:09 am
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl

According to Tony Nugent:
> Can someone kindly explain the difference between the /dev/cua? and
> /dev/ttyS? devices?
> 
> Exactly how _should_ they be used?
> 
> (10 points for the correct answer :-)

This issue recently has been beaten to death in
comp.os.linux.development.system, so maybe you can retrieve the information
from that newsgroup when your server has reasonably long expiry times.
(if not: no, I did not save the thread, but is was *LONG* and as usual
on usenet, the same arguments recycled several times)

Rob

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