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Re: Newbie comments & queries



on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:57:21PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:53:29PM -0800, ben (benfoley@rcn.com) wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You deleted the reference to the fact he's connecting it to a parallel
> port.

Correcting myself.  From Ian's later post, the modem *has* a parallel-port
connector in addition to the standard serial, and it's the serial he's
using.  Disregard my earlier device file comments.

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