6386E/33 goofiness with DOS and modem
Colonel Panic
aland at infmx.UUCP
Sun Aug 19 05:34:26 AEST 1990
In article <11954 at netcom.UUCP> jbreeden at netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes:
>You ONLY need console redirection if you arn't using a PC monitor and
>keyboard (the 'default' console).
True. But this is the DEFAULT configuration. As shipped, the machine
comes with console redirection to COM2 enabled (I've configured 6 of
these things, and it's been the same on each).
>The 'problem' you've noted isn't a bug, it's pilot ErRoR (mis-configuration) (-:
> John Robert Breeden
I disagree. If the machine requires that the redirection be disabled
manually before using DOS, then that fact should be documented.
It's not. (Nor are a number of other niceties about this machine.
A lot of the controlling utilities for configuration are not documented
at all, e.g. /etc/machid, /etc/isat386, chkconsole, etc. etc.)
BTW, I have since moved the modem to COM1 (once I got the right
wireable connectors), so this isn't a problem for me anymore...
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Alan Denney aland at informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
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