Subject: Re: Ok, we have been envoked.

From: David Engel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 17:57:51 CST

> Ok, since the file system standard went over so well, I propose this
> (open for discussion):

Ok, I'll throw my two cents worth in.

The easy ones first:  :)

wd0		first winchester disk, entire disk
wd0[abcd]	first winchester disk, primary partitions
wd0[e-z]	first winchester disk, logical partitions
wd[1-]*		other winchester disks, etc.

fd0		first floppy drive, default format assigned by user
fd0[a-g]	first floppy drive, formats defined in floppy.c
fd[1-N]*	other floppy drives, etc.

lp0		first parallel printer port
lp[1-N]		other parallel printer ports

Now, the hard ones.  I've yet to see or come up with anything that I
truely like, but the following are starting to grow on me.

vt0 (or ttyv0)	current virtual terminal
vt1		first virtual terminal
vt[2-N]		other virtual terminal

tty0		first serial port, assigned by the user
tty[1-N]	other serial ports, assigned by the user

-David

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David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081

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From: [email-masked] (Michael K. Johnson)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 20:03:04 CST

From: David Engel <[email-masked]>

wd or hd, I don't care -- might just stay with hd -- it seems to work
well....

With the mess of fd's that we have on PC's, there is no perfect
solution here -- but I like the orthagonality...  It would be nice to
_also_ specify names that describe the drive...

Of course.

I prefer vc0, vc2, ... vcn, since the name we have been using is
virtual console.  Does this make sense?

yeah...

   -David

michaelkjohnson
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