Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Yet more questions/problems with Interactive UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.175511.10713@virtech.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 90 17:55:11 GMT
References: <821@digi.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <821@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) writes:
>
>  1) I have been totally unsuccessful so far being able to use my second
>     serial port.  I check on the card, and it is configured as COM2 but
>     when I try to start a getty on it, all I get back is:
>
>getty: cannot open "/dev/tty01" errno: 6

I will presume you are running 2.0.2 and tell you to read the FAQ posting
which answeres this question.  If you don't have a copy of the posting,
send me email & I will send you a copy.

>  2) In my system I have 4 meg of memory, but when I boot up I get the
>     following message:  (The numbers are correct, I am not exactly sure
>     what the verbiage said) 
>
>Real memory 3801088

What you have is 3MB + 640k which should equal 3801088.

The stuff in 640K-1MB is for devices (like you video card).

>  3) Is there tty driver that knows not to allow you to backspace past the
>     prompt.  Needless to say this is not real important, but it is real
>     annoying.

Not that I know of.

>P.S. The response to my questions so far has been extremely low, are there
>     really not that many people out there with Interactive UNIX?  If you
>     know the answer to one of the questions, PLEASE don't think someone
>     else will answer it, because nobody is!

There are lots of people out here with ISC, SCO, ESIX and even a few intel
systems.  


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