The dev-make BASIC program adds an entity to the system. This command is normally used to add devices to the system. The most common usage is to create a serial device to be used with the BASIC get and send statements, even if there is no D3 process connected to the device.
dev-make -t type{-n number} {-a arg{,arg}}
| -t type | Entity type: serial |
| -n number | Entity number. If not specified, the system allocates a number. |
| -a arg | More than one -a option, or several arguments can be specified within one -a clause, separated by commas. The arguments depend on the type and are optional. |
| arg | UNIX device name, between quotation marks. |
When the entity is successfully created, an entry is added to the devs file, but not to the devs,init file.
Creates the serial device s100 associated to the UNIX device /dev/tty32. The device is reprogrammed the D3 way, that is, in raw mode, no echo. The hardware characteristics (baud rate and so on) are unchanged. When the device is successfully created, the newly created device can be attached and used with BASIC send and get statements. The hardware characteristics can be changed with the set-port command, using the full entity ID s100, only once the device has been attached, because the device is not actually opened when the D3 entity is created, but only at attach time.
dev-make -t serial -n 100 -a "/dev/tty32"