Chapter 17. Peripheral Devices
Chapter Syllabus
17.1 Devices and Physical Paths
17.2 Device Files
17.3 SCSI Device File Naming Convention
17.4 Listing Installed Devices
17.5 Creating Device Files
17.6 Installing a New Device
17.7 Terminals and Modems
HP-UX communicates with all devices through device files placed in the /dev directory. Logically, there is no difference between I/O to these files and to ordinary disk files. But these files are not like ordinary disk files in that they don't occupy any space on the disk. As soon as data are written to any of the device files, they are sent to the device represented by that file. For example, if you output some data to a printer device file, they go to an attached printer for the printing process. Any data ...
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