[Xastir-dev] acinclude.m4:XASTIR_DETECT_DEVICES

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 tbaggett at jump.net wrote:

> > Cygwin on Windows XP doesn't need to use /dev/com1 or any hack like
> > that.  It uses /dev/ttyS0 just fine.
> >
> > Does anyone out there have Cygwin on Windows 2000 who can verify this
> > behavior exists elsewhere?
>
> Yes, in fact all versions of Cygwin have used /dev/ttyS0 for quite some time now (at least 4 years).
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806

I was looking at the page yesterday.  It doesn't specifically say
"/dev/ttyS*", just "/dev/ttyX".  I saw "/dev/comX" listed, and
assumed that's what they were using for serial ports.

That's great if we can use the same names on Cygwin and Linux.  Much
less confusing when switching back and forth.

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