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From: bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Hwa Jin Bae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Info needed: UNIX for 286/386 machines
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Date: 18 Feb 88 06:48:28 GMT
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There is no way to increase the number of virtual consoles (more than
four at a time).  However, if you have DOSmerge running, you can run
up to seven DOS sessions in the background, each of which can be
accessed via additional virtual consoles by doing CTL-ALT-SYSRQ.
This is true for the System V/386 only.

Some problems I am currently having are:
	1) When using Exelan 205T and its TCP/IP software ("r" utilities,
	   telnet, ftp, socket lib., assortment of net. daemons,etc.),
	   the newly built kernel conflicts with (or somehow no longer
	   understands the DOSmerge calls) DOSmerge; DOS simply is not
	   available any more as soon as you go to init state 3 to do
	   the networking.
	2) It happens that the virtual consoles become disabled as well,
	   except one - the real virtual console (does this make sense?).

Is anyone experienced in the above problems?



Hwa Jin Bae
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