Submission for comp-unix-microport

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Path: tolerant!voder!apple!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!cosi!bill
From: bill at cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Problems w/U-port  (longish)
Summary: Yeah, me too
Message-ID: <258 at cosi.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 89 20:17:22 GMT
References: <1700003 at spdyne>
Organization: COS, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ
Lines: 26

In article <1700003 at spdyne>, elwiz at spdyne..UUCP writes:
] 
] 
] 	If I put the following lines in /etc/dosdev:
] 
] com1	v	/dev/vcom1	# This is virtual com1 device
] com1	r	/dev/tty00	Assign to a line
] 
] 
] I can then run `dos +acom1' or +acom1=/dev/vcom1 or any of the rest of the
] examples and I get the SAME result... Procomm can Send BUT NOT RECEIVE!
] as far as I can tell, it is NOT getting any interrupts..  This is a real
] pain, I wanted to use virtual access as the direct seemed to be causing
] my system to crash and burn (Hang >> Power down to reset), when I had a
] ...[stuff deleted]
] 

I can't get serial communications to work under DOS/Merge either.  I reported
the problem to Microport.  Their response was that they knew about the problem
and they had no specific plans to fix it.  Maybe they don't care?
I had hoped the problem would be fixed with 3.0e and DOS/Merge 1.1, but it
wasn't.  <sigh>

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