/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

2005-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I posted a question a few hours ago about the strange problems I had been having with some FreeBSD systems and the use of /dev/ttyd0 as an input device for logging data. After searching the FreeBSD handbook, I found the discussion of the "callout ports" cuaaN which do not use hardw

/dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some Systems but not others.

2005-02-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I wrote a C program that opens /dev/ttyd0 for reading data from an external device. I had beginner's luck because it worked in Linux (actually that device is called /dev/ttyS0) and on the first FreeBSD box I tried it as /dev/ttyd0. The /etc/ttys file had /dev/ttyd0 set to off so there was