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I'm a little unclear on theory between the two devices. Would a character device be something like the keyboard (passing one char at a time) as opposed to block (that uses a buffer then passes the contents of the buffer)? I have no idea how you would use a pipe in this context. Kevin Jerry Feldman wrote: > First, the files in the /dev/ directory are usually device special files and > rarely are there normal files. When you do an ls -l, the first character > before the permissions says whether it is a character or block device. > In the following, ptyp0 is a character device with a major number of 7, > and a minor number of 0. > crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 0 Oct 22 14:48 ptyp0 > Each driver is identified by a major number, and the device is generally > the minor number, but that actually depends on the driver. Floppy names > are normally set up as something like /dev/fd01440. There is a whole > bunch of them. I don't have a linux system that I can log into from here. > > On 21 Feb 00, at 10:22, Kevin M. Gleason wrote: > > > I was playing around on my Linux box and had some questions about files > > in /dev. > > If fd0 is used to define the first 3 1/2" high density floppy what other > > device drivers might I expect to see for the same size drive? > > > > Or other drivers on my computer (I have used the cdrom is09660). > > > > Are there drivers for the old 5 1/4" floppy disk drives? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Kevin > > > > - > > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > > -- > Jerry Feldman > Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering > 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ > > Compaq Computer Corp. > 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 > Marlboro, Ma. 01752 > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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