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MAKEDEV(8)
NAME
  MAKEDEV - makes system special files

SYNOPSIS
  /dev/MAKEDEV [ argument ] [ device-name? ...]

DESCRIPTION
  The MAKEDEV shell script is normally used to install special files. It
  resides in the /dev directory, the normal location of special files.
  Arguments to MAKEDEV are usually of the form device-name? where device-name
  is one of the supported devices listed in Section 7 of the Reference Pages
  and ? is a logical unit number.  argument is one of the following special
  arguments that create assorted collections of devices:

  std Creates all standard device files for all systems.

      Standard devices for Alpha AXP-based systems are as follows: klog,
      kmem, mem, null, console, tty, pty0, pty1, kbinlog, ptmx, pm0, and cam.

  latn
      Creates a set of 16 LAT device special files, one for each LAT terminal
      device. The n specifies the set option. The set option range is 0 to
      38. Specifying lat38 creates 12 LAT device special files.

  PTY_#
      Creates groups of pseudoterminal device special files, as follows:

      PTY_1
	  Creates pty0 to pty22.

      PTY_2
	  Creates pty23 to pty45.

      PTY_3
	  Creates pty46 to pty56.

      PTY_4
	  Creates pty57 to pty64.

      PTY_5
	  Creates pty65 to pty72.

      PTY_6
	  Creates pty73 to pty80.

      PTY_7
	  Creates pty81 to pty88.

      PTY_8
	  Creates pty89 to pty96.

      PTY_9
	  Creates pty97 to pty101.

      The # specifies the group of pseudoterminal device special files
      created.

  local
      Creates those devices specific to the local site.	 This request causes
      the shell file /dev/MAKEDEV.local to be executed.	 This file must exist
      prior to using the local argument. Site specific commands, such as
      those used to setup dialup lines as ttyd? and to create device special
      files for all non-Digital devices, should be included in this file.

  Because all devices are created using mknod(8) this shell script is useful
  only to the superuser.

NOTES
  The MAKEDEV script installs files in the current working directory.
  Although device special files can be located anywhere on the system, they
  are usually created in the /dev directory, since this is where most
  applications expect to find them.

ERRORS
  Either self-explanatory, or generated by one of the programs called from
  the script.  Use sh -x MAKEDEV in case of trouble.

RELATED INFORMATION
  intro(7), config(8), mknod(8), pty(7)