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25.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:03:24 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
26.TH TTYS 4 1992-12-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27.SH NAME
28ttyS \- serial terminal lines
29.SH DESCRIPTION
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30.B ttyS[0\-3]
31are character devices for the serial terminal lines.
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fea681da 33They are typically created by:
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34.PP
35.in +4n
36.EX
4d9b6984 37mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x3f8
4d9b6984 38mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x2f8
4d9b6984 39mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x3e8
4d9b6984 40mknod \-m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x2e8
8c383102 41chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0\-3]
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42.EE
43.in
fea681da 44.SH FILES
909133ff 45.I /dev/ttyS[0\-3]
47297adb 46.SH SEE ALSO
fea681da 47.BR chown (1),
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48.BR mknod (1),
49.BR tty (4),
a61776a4 50.BR agetty (8),
27334eaf 51.BR mingetty (8),
fea681da 52.BR setserial (8)