klarich@a.cs.okstate.edu (terry klarich) (01/18/89)
First of all, I would like to thank every one who responded to my questions about my voice synthesizer working with Unix. I have just about decided to get Xenix 386. However, I would like to ask a few more questions before I shell out the bucks. I will need 4 serial ports. com1 xt acting as a voice terminal. com2 modem com3 TNC; amateur radio rtty device com4 Braille printer Now, under MS-dos, I can share an IRQ line between serial ports as long as I am not using two ports on the same line. I suspect that Xenix wouldn't like this very much. So, I have looked into which IRQ lines are used for what purpose. My multiio card will allow me to use IRQ 2, 3, 4 and 5 for serial ports. This means I can use IRQ 2 and IRQ 5 for com3 and com4 respectively? I can find no use for IRQ 2 and I know IRQ 5 is used for the lpt2 port. If I set up my hardware like this, what will Xenix think about it? What will I need to do to let Xenix know what I did? I would rather not buy a multi-port card. How do these cards generally work? What will happen to lpt2? Also, does Xenix allow for vertual screens over terminal ports? Will I have the ability to switch between two or more processes from a serial line? I would like to be able to have more than one task active without putting the extra tasks in batch mode. How much of the docs is not provided with the man pages? Any responses are quite welcome. Thanks beforehand and maybe afterhand. -- Terry Klarich (klarich@a.cs.okstate.edu) n5hts A man is not complete until he is married then, he is finished.
tif@cpe.UUCP (01/19/89)
Written 12:56 pm Jan 17, 1989 by okstate.UUCP!klarich in cpe:comp.unix.xenix >I will need 4 serial ports. I'm gonna let someone that's more sure of their info talk about that. >How much of the docs is not provided with the man pages? The paper manuals not included in the electronic man pages are: Administrator's guide, User's guide, 2 programmer's guides, Text Processing guide, and CGI manuals. The following ARE included in the man pages: cat.C Everyday Commands (cat, sort, etc) cat.CP programmer commands (cc, etc) cat.CT Text Commands (nroff, troff, tbl, etc) cat.DOS Dos filesystem cmds (doscp, doscat, etc) cat.F File Formats (core, tar, cpio, etc) cat.HW HW devices (hd, fd, etc) cat.LOCAL empty unless you add something cat.M Maintenance (aliases, messages, imagen, etc) cat.S System routines (open, read, printf, etc) Boy, I bet if you're reading this with a voice synthesiser, my style of writing (with lots of graphical punctuation) is really difficult. Paul Chamberlain Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp. {killer | texbell}!cpe!tif