On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:41 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:49:21PM +0200, Ian Balchin (fables@imaginet.co.za) wrote: [snip] > > /dev/ttyS[012] almost certainly isn't going to be the device file you > want though. > why wouldn't he want this? my modem uses /dev/ttyS1--always has.