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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:34:04PM -0400, Paul Rogers wrote:
>Should "devices.in" really have a limit of 16 "/dev/com" ports when the
>"ttyS" ports are allowed up to 64 values (max of 63 since it is a
>zero-based index)?

You really should be using /dev/ttyS for linux compatibility.  The fact
that there is a /dev/com at all is really an artifact of the old device
implementation.

cgf

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