X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D8210FF.7040707@bopp.net> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:47:43 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How do I make a COM port in windows accessible using cygwin? References: <31152875 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <11cd305584914a0c59bc5b195f086d1e AT shell DOT sh DOT cvut DOT cz> <31157501 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4D7FE2DD DOT 4050201 AT sh DOT cvut DOT cz> <31172378 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <31172378.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 3/17/2011 08:22, Vinod Pillai wrote: > Vaclav Haisman wrote: >> >> Vinod Pillai wrote, On 15.3.2011 21:03: >>> >>> Im sorry but Im a complete novice at this. I cd-ed into the /dev folder. >>> But >>> I could not find a ttyS1. If you could elaborate what exactly I must do, >>> it >>> would be helpful. Thank you. >> Read the page I have linked: "These devices cannot be seen with the >> command >> ls /dev/ although commands such as ls /dev/tty work fine." > > When I typed ls /dev/tty, I did not get any response. Any other possible > solutions The command ls /dev/tty works for me: $ ls -l /dev/tty crw--w---- 1 jeremyb Domain Users 5, 0 Mar 17 08:43 /dev/tty Even if the path you attempted to use didn't exist, you should have got /some/ response: $ ls /dev/nonexistent ls: cannot access /dev/nonexistent: No such file or directory Can you provide more details about what exactly happened when you tried to run your command? -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple