jon@robots.ox.ac.uk
Date: 02/08/93


From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Problems with SLS .99pl4 (released 1/31/93)
Date: 8 Feb 1993 23:21:01 GMT

In article <1993Feb5.052543.9528@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
>make sure you remember the 's' in /dev/ttyS1 (com2) is upper case now...

I noticed this in the latest ALPHA kernel patch, is there any reason for this
change apart to cause confusion and problems with those of us whose /dev
directory hasn't been changed for the last 12 months? I can't say I have
ever known any unix varient to use uppercase letters in device names before.

Jon.