jdw@hpfijdw.HP.COM (Jeff Wood) (05/31/90)
I am having a terrible time getting VP/ix (Version 1.1) to do anything for me.
I have several questions on this package.
1) I purchased this package to use my HP ScanJet scanner with a DOS
software interface. Then I found out that version 1.1 of VP/ix
doesn't recognize direct device access. I talked with SCO and
they said version 1.2 would probably have the functionality I
needed. They went on to say that this version of VP/ix would only
be supported under SCO UNIX. Now I see in a response to the floppy
problem that you need SCO Xenix version 2.3 or better. What is the real
scoop on version 1.2 of VP/ix. Has anyone tested the DDA portion of
VP\ix 1.2???
2) I have a couple of DOS applications which try to access a COM port.
When the software tries to access this port I get an error:
Unable to emulate two byte instruction
COM1 in vpix.cnf is:
COM1 /dev/tty1a
which is the device file:
crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 5, 0 May 24 07:32 /dev/tty1a
What does this error mean. Is this something that VP/ix can't
emulate or have I set something incorrectly???
3) I am having a terrible time reading, copying, and formatting
floppy disks through VP/ix. I get errors from bad sector to
various format errors. Here are the vpix.cnf entries for
my 1.44MB 3.5" and 1.2 5.25" drives:
A /dev/rfd096
B /dev/rfd296ds9
which are the device files:
crw-rw-rw- 4 bin bin 2, 52 Mar 14 12:31 /dev/rfd096
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 38 Feb 9 10:41 /dev/rfd296ds9
Can I do anything to fix this???
One final question is - will VP/ix version 1.2 solve any of these
problems???
Thanks for answers to any and all!
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Jeffrey D. Wood Colorado IC Division
jdw@hpfijdw.hp.com (303) 229-6633