[clug] mkdev

David Collett davico at tpg.com.au
Mon May 9 11:35:26 GMT 2005


could that have been mknod ?
man mknod

Dave

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:09 +1000, Adrian Blake wrote:
> I am using Mandrake 10.0. Years ago I could add new devices with mkdev 
> plus major and minor numbers etc.
> 
> I want a copy of /dev/port so I can do simple reading and writing to a 
> port, namely the various parts of the printer port.
> 
> I am sure I did in early version of Mandrake. Any suggestions?
> 
> Adrian
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> Adrian Blake
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> University of Sydney
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> 
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