Accessing com1: under vpix
Colin J. Dykstra
colin at darkover.uucp
Wed Nov 14 14:45:26 AEST 1990
Question for the net:
I'm trying to setup vp/ix (well really AT&T's simultask) to access
an asynch port (/dev/tty00) as COM1: so that I can use a modem whilst
in simultask. I have /dev/tty00 administered as a uucp device and can't
seem to be able to share it with simultask.
Here is what I have tried so far:
from /usr/vpix/defaults/vpix.cnf:
COM1 /dev/tty00
The above results in a dos error message, while starting simultask,
something to the effect:
"can't open /dev/tty00"
Next I tried disabling the port under unix (commented out the
appropriate entry in /etc/inittab and killed the uugetty). This
was somewhat more successful. This time, at least I was able to
access the port briefly under simultask (tried "echo blah > COM1:"),
however, the dos session hung almost immediately.
I am out of ideas, and any suggestions anybody may have would be very
much appreciated.
Regards,
Colin Dykstra
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