.\" .\" Devin Reade, January 1997 .\" .\" $Id: intro.4,v 1.1 1997/02/27 07:32:28 gdr Exp $ .\" .TH INTRO 4 "12 January 1997" GNO Devices .SH NAME intro \- introduction to device drivers .SH DESCRIPTION This chapter describes GNO device drivers. .LP Note that device drivers under GNO are referenced by the GS/OS convention of using a preceeding dot (such as .BR .tty ). This differs from other Unix implementations that use device files in the .BR /dev directory. .SH SEE ALSO .IR "GNO Kernel Reference Manual" , .br .IR "GNO Shell (gsh) Reference Manual" .