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| 3270cn Special File | Provides access to 3270 connection adapters by way of the 3270 connection adapter device handler. |
| bus Special File | Provides access to each of the hardware buses by way of the machine I/O device driver. |
| cd Special File | Provides access to the CD-ROM device driver. |
| console Special File | Provides access to the system console. |
| dials Special File | Provides access to the dials. |
| dump Special File | Supports system dump. |
| entn Special File | Provides access to Ethernet high-performance LAN adapters by way of the Ethernet device handler. |
| Error Logging Special Files | Support error logging. |
| fd Special File | Provides access to the diskette device driver. |
| fddin Special File | Provides access to the FDDI device driver by way of the FDDI device handler. |
| GIO Special File | Provides access to the graphics I/O (GIO) adapter. |
| ide Special File | Provides access to the Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) adapter driver. |
| kbd Special File | Provides access to the natively attached keyboard. |
| lft Special File | Provides character-based terminal support for the local graphics display and keyboard. |
| lp Special File | Provides access to the line printer device driver. |
| lpfk Special File | Provides access to the lighted program function key (LPFK) array. |
| lvdd Special File | Provides access to the logical volume device driver. |
| mem and kmem Special Files | Provides privileged virtual memory read and write access. |
| mouse Special File | Provides access to the natively attached mouse. |
| mpqi Special File | Provides access to the Multiport Model 2 Adapter (MM2) device driver via SNA Services, GDLC, or user-written applications compatible with current MPQP Applications Programming Interface (API). |
| mpqn Special File | Provides access to multiprotocol adapters by way of the Multiprotocol Quad Port (MPQP) device handler. |
| null Special File | Provides access to the null device, typically for writing to the bit bucket. |
| nvram Special File | Provides access to platform-specific nonvolatile RAM used for system boot, configuration, and fatal error information. |
| omd Special File | Provides access to the read/write optical device driver. |
| opn Special File | Provides a diagnostic interface to the serial optical ports by way of the Serial Optical Link device driver. |
| ops0 Special File | Provides access to the serial optical link by way of the Serial Optical Link Device Handler Overview. |
| pty Special File | Provides the pseudo-terminal (pty) device driver. |
| rcm Special File | Provides the application interface to obtain and relinquish the status of a graphics process through the Rendering Context Manager (RCM) device driver. |
| rhdisk Special File | Provides raw I/O access to the physical volumes (fixed-disk) device driver. |
| rmt Special File | Provides access to the sequential-access bulk storage medium device driver. |
| scsi Special File | Provides access to the SCSI adapter driver. |
| serdasda Special File | Provides access to the serial DASD adapter. |
| serdasdc Special File | Provides access to the serial DASD subsystem controllers. |
| tablet Special File | Provides access to the tablet. |
| tmscsi Special File | Provides access to the SCSI tmscsi device driver. |
| tokn Special File | Provides access to the token-ring adapters by way of the token-ring device handler. |
| trace Special File | Supports event tracing. |
| tty Special File | Supports the controlling terminal interface. |
| x25sn Special File | Provides access to the X.25 Interface Co-Processor/2 adapters by way of the X.25 Interface Co-Processor/2 device handler. |
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