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