On 14 Jul, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> I would prefer to stick to the "tty" and "cua" prefixes however. > > I can agree on the tty prefix. I've always disliked the cua prefix, > simply because it's nonsensical. It's the kind of prefix you pick > when all the good (and bad) ones have been used and you randomly > grab 3 letters from your scrabble box, sigh, and accept that once > again luck hasn't been on your side :-) :-) > > Seriously: the origin of cua is mostly lost and systems like UUCP > have already been removed from the source tree. Anybody new to > FreeBSD and who hasn't been around since the epoch will completely > fail to see why the device is called the way it is. I still use cu(1), though I don't know why the man page suggests using the /dev/ttyXX device. The /etc/remote file uses the cua device.Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 16:39:07 UTC
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