In article <[🔎] 20000129022331.24673.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote: > Also I couldn't find a man page for MAKEDEV, but I > forgot that it was CASE SENSITIVE. (whose idea was it > to name the script in upper case anyway? :->). Historical... I'm sure it was so that it would sort to the front of 'ls' output in the /dev directory, where it has lived through history. Because of devfs, it now installs in /sbin and gets symlinked into /dev. Bdale