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From: helly%AEROSPACE@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: CTTY Problems
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 16:41:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 16:41:00 1983
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From:  helly at AEROSPACE (John Helly)

I have fiddled with the CTTY command of DOS 2.0 with some strange
results.  While I have been able to use other ASCII terminals as the
console to DOS, whenever I invoke an application program (VDTE,
Wordstar, LOTUS, etc.)  display reverts to the system console and the
system accepts commands from neither keyboard.

The command sequence I use to set up the initial reconfiguration is:

	mode com1:1200,e,7,1
        ctty com1

This works fine as long as you converse only with DOS.  I suspect that
applications are somehow resetting the mode to use the system display.

Does anyone know how to overcome this or better understand what's
happening?

--john helly