why cannot I see serial devices using ls
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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Wed Sep 22 17:29:00 GMT 2010
On 9/22/2010 8:41 AM, JonMcG wrote:
>
> I have decided to port some code to cygwin from linux. It uses serial ports
> and under linux I can
> ls -l /dev/tty*
> If I do this under cygwin I get nothing. If I do
> ls -l /dev
> I only get a few device. However if I do
> ls -l /dev/ttyS0
> or
> ls -l /dev/com1
> then I get what I would expect.
> I have searched cygwin FAQ etc and this forum but didn't find anything.
> Anybody any ideas what I have to do?
Read the User's Guide:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices>
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