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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> I had read somewhere on line that if you use ar with .deb files
> the data.tar.gz file will be in a format that Slackware can use.

Not necessarily. We are fortunate that debian uses tar.gz/tgz file.
Redhat also uses tgz file and PLD uses tar.bz2 file.

> > > but I doubt that BL2 comes with that.
> > 
> > It's in the Slackware devs.tgz package.
> 
> Can I make a link between /dev/photopc and /dev/ttyS0 instead?
> You can do that for /dev/mouse.

In this case no because they are not the same. You can check out
slackware devs.tgz like below:

zcat devs.tgz | tar -vt

and fine out what the major and minor numbers are. Then use makenode to
create the device file in dev/.