stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) (04/06/88)
I have been having some troubles with SCO Xenix 2.2.1 386 and VP/ix. I am running on an ACER and added a second floppy (48 tpi). I was hoping to be able to configure one vpix user to use the 96tpi drive as A: and another user to use the 48tpi drive as A:, but it won't work. It will only allow one of the drives to be used. Before you can use the 48tpi drive from VP/ix, you must first access it for Xenix (ie do a dosdir or some such). If you don't when VP/ix tries to read drive A: the 96tpi drive will start spinning. After getting the 48tpi drive working, if you try to access the 96tpi drive from another VP/ix session you get the same thing in reverse. I have not tried using one drive from Xenix while the other is being used in VP/ix. The other problem I am having with VP/ix is with LPT1. I have LPT1 defined as being the Xenix lp spooler, and it works just fine from a terminal, but if you start VP/ix from the console it will go and initialize the printer just like DOS does (this is messy if the printer is being used :-). LPT2 and LPT3 work fine from the console but LPT1 goes direct to the device regardless of the configuration file. Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- ------------------ All it takes is time and money!!!