by jesse

what must be done to make javax.comm work with devFS?

the easiest way to make it work is to symlink /dev/tts/0 to /dev/ttyS0, and so on and so forth. I suspect that the source to javax.comm could be changed to make it look in /dev/tts/* for ports, not just look at /dev/ttyS*.

 


 
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