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39.Dd November 25, 1999
40.Dt UCOM 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm ucom
44.Nd USB tty support
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "ucom* at uftdi?"
47.Cd "ucom* at umct?"
48.Cd "ucom* at umodem?"
49.Cd "ucom* at uplcom?"
50.Cd "ucom* at uvisor? portno ?"
51.Cd "ucom* at uvscom?"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55driver attaches to USB modems, serial ports, and other devices that need
56to look like a tty.
57The
58.Nm
59driver shows a behavior like a
60.Xr tty 4 .
61This means that normal programs such as
62.Xr tip 1
63or
64.Xr pppd 8
65can be used to access the device.
66.Pp
67The
68.Va portno
69locater can be used to decide which port to use for device that have
70multiple external ports.
71.Sh FILES
72.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/ucom?"
73.It Pa /dev/ucom?
74.El
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr tty 4 ,
77.Xr uftdi 4 ,
78.Xr umct 4 ,
79.Xr umodem 4 ,
80.Xr uplcom 4 ,
81.Xr usb 4 ,
82.Xr uvisor 4 ,
83.Xr uvscom 4
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87driver was adopted from
88.Nx
89in March of 2002.
90This manual page was adopted from
91.Nx
92by
93.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org
94in April 2002.
95