On Tuesday 22 May 2001 03:10, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> A simple portable way to do this (short of changing the API) would be to
> set environment variables mapping numbers to serial devices, like
>
> 	SQUEAK_SERIAL_0="/dev/cuaa0"
>         SQUEAK_SERIAL_1="/dev/cuaa1"

And/or just giving the base name:
	SQUEAK_SERIAL="/dev/cuaa"

> The default base ("/dev/cuaa", "/dev/tty" etc) could be figured out by
> autoconf.

Maybe; however, different kinds of boards (esp. intelligent boards) have 
different major/minor numbers and names. So someone might not have any 
/dev/cuaa or /dev/ttyS ports.

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Ned Konz
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