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From: paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: comms problem, error code=-17
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.124615.15460@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 15 Feb 91 12:46:15 GMT
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I have been getting a comms problem on my MacPlus. I get a -17 error when I
start up some of my modem comms software, eg Red Ryder etc. plus I also get
the same problem with MacMinix.

What does -17 indicate? All I can find in the documentation is "control error"!

MacMinix gets this problem after a PBControl call, as follows:
if((err = PBControl(&pb, 0)) != 0)
   printf("error %d setting line parameters on serial line %d\n",err,rs->minor);

Actually the code read:
if((err = PBControl(&pb, 0)) != 0)
   printf("error %d setting line parameters on serial line %d\n",rs->minor);
but I amended it to find out what the actual error code was :-)

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