> > >Well, the idea behind "modem" and "print" was twofold. 1) use names which
> > >newbies know about.
> > 
> > Yeah!  Even I can understand the funny little ICONs attached to the modem 
> > and printer ports, but what's a "tty00" or "tty01" ICON look like?
> 
> :-)
> 
> I think the best solution is for the script builder to mention which
> is which, and maybe for the up and down scripts to be modem-up and
> printer-up. Or, have modem-up & printer-up be symlinks to the tty0X
> files. Thus as we gain mastery of ls -l, we learn more. :-)
> 

I think that the mklinux folks got it right. Create the real devices as
tty's and make a link from /dev/printer and /dev/modem to the correct tty.
The only problem I've heard steming from this is that the devices were
reversed on pmac-linux when it still used the mklinux file installer.