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Subject: Re: why cannot I see serial devices using ls
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> On 9/22/2010 8:41 AM, JonMcG wrote:
>>
>> I have decided to  port some code to cygwin from linux. It uses serial
>> ports
>> and under linux I can
>> ls -l /dev/tty*
>> If I do this under cygwin I get nothing. If I do
>> ls -l /dev
>> I only get a few device. However if I do
>> ls -l /dev/ttyS0
>> or
>> ls -l /dev/com1
>> then I get what I would expect.
>> I have searched cygwin FAQ etc and this forum but didn't find anything.
>> Anybody any ideas what I have to do?
> 
> Read the User's Guide:
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices>
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Many thanks to replies. Must improve my reading skills.
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