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30 .Nd nullmodem terminal driver
36 driver provides support for a device-pair termed a
38 A null modem pair is a pair of character devices.
39 Each device provides to a process an interface identical
42 However, whereas most other devices which provide the
43 interface described in
45 have a hardware device of some sort behind them, the
47 device has, instead, another process manipulating
48 it through the other half of the pair.
49 That is, anything written on the first device is
50 given to the second device as input and anything written
51 on the second device is presented as input on the first
54 .Bl -tag -width /dev/nmdm[N][AB] -compact
55 .It Pa /dev/nmdm Ns Ar N Ns Op Pa AB
56 nullmodem device nodes.
70 driver first appeared in