nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) (01/07/88)
> I got bit by it (by PSI V4.1 actually, which now has its own TPdriver). > I use it along with the CMU TCP package. I decided to call it TNdriver, > but there is no guarantee that is unique either. DEC has alot of drivers. Seems lots of people are having this problem. OK, try this as a way of avoiding conflict with Digital device names: almost all Digital devices use 2 character names (TT, TP, PA, etc.) and a few use 3 (NET and PTY, this later seems to be a pseudo-terminal driver which is part of the DECTest/Manager layered product - no documentation on using it directly however :-(). Therefore, select a 4, 5 or longer character name for the device and driver - maybe YTPDRIVER (yep, that's PTY backwards :-). Device names can be use to 15 characters long; I've written a driver called UICDRIVER (for the AMD-9519 Universal Interrupt Controller chip) which supports devices named VAXQA0, VAXQB0, etc. on some of our systems. = Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru & Wizard" = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510