[ale] instruction needed

[Chris Fowler]

Anything is possible.  The driver and hardware just has to support it.

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:22, Danny Cox wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:54, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > Okay, time for the next lesson:
> > What's a "major/minor device number"?
> > 
> > Sean,
> 
> 	What they all said is true.
> 
> 	But this is, IMHO, one of the basic ideas of UNIX/Linux: *everything*
> is a file.
> 
> 	Using these "special files", one can open, read, write, and close them,
> WITHOUT ACTUALLY KNOWING THAT THEY'RE NOT FILES.  There are some
> exceptions, of course.  You can randomly seek about in a file, but not a
> character device (how would you 'seek' on a keyboard?).
> 
> P.S. I've not forgotten about your earlier question: still researching.
> ;-)