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
