stark@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Brian D. Stark) (11/14/90)
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article entitled floundering describing a few of the dificutlies we were having as new users of xenix, the explanations and/or solutiions to the problems are as follows: 1. The computone serial ports uses a special null modem cable the wire assignments are as follows: 2-3, 3-2, 4-5, 5-4, 7-7, 8-20, 20-8. 2. Xenix doesn't automatically cylcle through baud rates, you have to tell your users to send a break at their terminal. Does anyone know of a possible workaround for this? 3. Xenix does not recognize a DOS 4.* partition. There is no work around available for this, and there are no plans by SCO to fix this. The explanation given to us was that DOS 5.0 is about to be released, so they weren't going to worry about 4. Hope this may help some other rookies out there, and thanks a million for all the great support we recieved. Brian
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (11/15/90)
In article <1990Nov13.225850.4008@ucselx.sdsu.edu> stark@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Brian D. Stark) writes: | 2. Xenix doesn't automatically cylcle through baud rates, you have to tell | your users to send a break at their terminal. Does anyone know of a possible | workaround for this? Several. The old getty from about 2.1 used to be very good about "downshifting," so you could set the speed cycle at 9600-2400-1200-300 and it would work on returns. The new getty which support uuchat doesn't do this reliably. I told SCO about this and they suggested adding a dialout modem and running the old version on the incoming modems. There are several p.d. version around, hack one to use uuchat (uugetty) and use that. These will autobaud on one CR. Best way: run modems which can be locked at a single speed on the serial port, and which use hardware flow control to keep the computer from overrunning the modem line speed. I ran 9600 baud serial on 2400 baud modems for a while but gave up for other unrelated reasons. This is really the best way to do it, assuming your modems support it and that you can set the line speed for dialout. Autobaud at the right speed every time. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me