From: "Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw AT jps DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: what is the serial device
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:20:37 -0800
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What is the string used to open the serial device.  The standard Linux
syntax does not work:

    fd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR);

I tried several variations, but get messages such as "not a tty device".

Rossz