ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) (01/28/89)
I have recently installed SCO Xenix 386 2.3.1 on an ALR 386/220.
I also installed the "International Supplement" 2.0. Now when I
use the "mapchan" command on /dev/lp0, there is a pause of about 3
seconds, and then the machine resets and performs a complete power-on
boot sequence.
I have no problem with mapchan on the console or the serial line,
only with the parallel printer. Plain printing also works ok.
Am I doing something the wrong way, or is this a bug? Is there anyone
at all besides me using the international supplement?
Another thing I am wondering about, is wether it is possible to use cu
and uucp on the same serial line from this 8-bit Xenix system, connecting
to another 7-bit Unix system, without constantly switching the character
mapping on that line on and off. The 7-bit system is using a national
variation of ASCII for texts, that should be mapped to/from 8-bit
codes. On the other hand, uucp didn't work with mapping turned on,
when I tried. I think uucp ought to turn mapping off automatically,
since uucp uses binary data (versus text) in it's transfer protocol,
that never will work if mapped to other characters.
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