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