On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Paul Munden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping you could help me. I'm using CYGWIN to run some SMS tools and > the tools config files need setting up to add the details of which com port > I'm using. Basically I just need to know how I would go about creating the > com4 object in /dev so that it does actually point at the com port as when > installed, CYGWIN came with no /dev or any example of how I would setup the > com object. > > Any help appreciated > Paul.
Paul, /dev is a virtual directory on Cygwin, just like /proc or /cygdrive. You should still be able to access /dev/com4. You can create a real /dev directory, but I don't think you can actually get a list of the devices there using "ls" (not yet, at least. Perhaps when Christopher Faylor's mknod code comes out). You can "ls" any individual device, though... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/