MAKEDEV(8)

NAME
MAKEDEV, makedev - create system and device special files

SYNOPSIS
MAKEDEV name [...]

DESCRIPTION
The shell script MAKEDEV, found in the /dev directory, is used to create the common special files.

MAKEDEV takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are the common abbreviation for the device. There are three special device names, all, std and local. If given, all creates device files for all devices on the Atari. If units are expected for a device MAKEDEV supplies the standard numbers. The std argument creates the standard devices for the Atari. Finally local is for devices specific to the local site, and executes the shell file MAKEDEV.local.

The Atari supports the following devices. Where a device name is followed by a hash sign ("#"), the hash sign must be replaced by a unit number.

Pseudo-names
all All known devices for the Atari.
std The standard devices (console, drum, fd/*, klog, kmem, mem, null, reload, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero)
local
    Configuration specific devices

Device-names
aconf
    Autoconfig information
bpf#
    Berkeley packet filters
ccd#
    Concatenating disk driver
cd# SCSI CD-ROM drives
fd# Floppy disk drives
grf#
    Graphic "frame buffers"
ite#
    Bit-mapped based character consoles
kbd The keyboard
lkm Loadable kernel modules.
random
    Random number generator
mdm#
    Both modem ports
mouse#
    Mouse ports
par#
    Parallel ports (not yet supported)
pty#
    Set of 16 master and slave pseudo terminals
sd# SCSI disks drives
ser#
    Both serial ports
st# SCSI tape drives
ttye#
    Terminal emulator interface to the Atari graphics device. Also named pseudo console.
tun#
    The network tunnel device
view#
    Abstract graphics interface to grf#'s
vnd#
    "File" pseudo-disks

FILES
/dev
    The special file directory.

SEE ALSO
intro(4), config(8), mknod(8)