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From: niobium@nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Fixing NiftyTerm to use SHARED mode on serial.device
Keywords: SERIAL NIFTYTERM VT100
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.234624.29392@nevada.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 23:46:24 GMT
References: <jpbaker.672438449@silver>
Organization: University of Nevada, System Computing Services
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In article <jpbaker.672438449@silver> jpbaker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon P Baker) writes:
>I got NiftyTerm a couple of days ago and I love its vt102 emulation.
>
>My only problem is that when I try to run SZ or RZ I get the message
>"cannot open serial.device" or something similar.  I belive that this
>is because NiftyTerm does not open the serial port in shared access
>mode.
>
>Is there an easy way to fix this?  I would _think_ that it would just
>be a matter of using a file editor and changing a byte or three.

Even easier than that...

Simply start it up with one additional command-line option: -shared
Like so: niftyterm -shared
Easy 'nuff, no?

>Jon
>
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