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Create nodes for asynchronous devices 

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The command asymkdev reads async_file, questions the user about her system, and writes a shell script into outfile. When run, the script creates the proper nodes (up to 256 of them) for the asynchronous devices in /dev.

If you name no async_file, asymkdev /dev/default/async. If you name no outfile, it writes its script into asy_mknod.

asymkdev asks about each asynchronous channel for which a port is configured. It asks for the basic device name (e.g., asy00 or com0), and then asks which of the eight possible port configurations will be used. The options are:

ll or rr
Local or remote.

ii or pp
Interrupt-driven or polled.

ff or nn
RTS-CTS flow control or no hardware flow control.

For details of what the options mean, see the Lexicon article for the device driver asy.

Suffix letters ``rlipnf'' respectively indicate remote, local, interrupt, polled, no-flow, and flow-control configurations, as explained in the Lexicon article for asy.

For each question, type the value that applies or press <Enter>, to select the default displayed in brackets. The option -u suppresses prompts.

See Also

Notes

Only the superuser root can run this command.