Museum

Home

Lab Overview

Retrotechnology Articles

Online Manuals

⇒ intro(4) — Ultrix-32 2.0

Media Vault

Software Library

Restoration Projects

Artifacts Sought

Related Articles

intro(4n)

MAKEDEV(8)

intro(4)

NAME

intro − introduction to special files and hardware support

DESCRIPTION

Section four describes the special files, related driver functions, and networking support available in the system.  In this part of the manual, the SYNTAX heading of each configurable device gives a sample specification for use in constructing a system description for the config(8) program.  The DIAGNOSTICS heading lists messages which may appear on the console and in the system error log file /usr/adm/syserr/syserr.<hostname> due to errors in device operation. 

This section four area contains descriptions of both configurable devices, “4” entries, and network related “device” information, “4n”, “4p”, and “4f” entries; The networking support is introduced in intro(4n).  Software support for these devices comes in two forms.  A hardware device may be supported with a character or block device driver, or it may be used within the networking subsystem and have a network interface driver.

FILES

/dev/*

SEE ALSO

intro(4n), MAKEDEV(8)

Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026