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- From: ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
- Subject: Re: How to get Merge to see DOS partition?
- Message-ID: <BzHzMI.H6n@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Sender: Dave Ihnat
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Dec9.165909.19109@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <Bz9ptE.I7H@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec16.041341.0601110@locus.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:30:18 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Dec16.041341.0601110@locus.com> peet@locus.com (J. David Peet) writes:
- >In article <Bz9ptE.I7H@chinet.chi.il.us> ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us
- > (Dave Ihnat) writes:
- > <<my explanation of starting MERGE on my box>>
-
- >This is not quite correct. The default is "+amouse +ae:=/dev/dsk/dos".
- >(Which is held in the /etc/dosenv.def file, and you use the "dosopt"
- >utility to view and change the settings in this file.)
- >The "+amouse" causes the mouse to be used via the UNIX console driver,
- >thus it automatically follows the current VT. Using "+adcom1" is not
- >recommended for using the mouse.
-
- Ok, but I'm not running a bus mouse--I rarely use it, and it's hanging off
- a COM port. A bit of clarification would be welcome--or, as I asked before,
- where can I get the current manuals for MERGE?
-
- >As long as /dev/dsk/dos is linked
- >properly to the DOS partition device, then it will be automatically
- >available. Unless these defaults have been changed by the user, the mouse
- >and DOS partition should be automatically available without needing to
- >use the command line parameters.
-
- Perhaps they were changed by Dell?
-
- >>More, although /dev/dsk/dos and /dev/dsk/0s5 have the same major,minor
- >>numbers, I can't access the partition from /dev/dsk/dos; it has to be the
- >>0s5 special device. This latter may well be a configuration problem,
- >>however, as none of the MERGE manuals are available from Dell, and the
- >>online manuals are one rev out of date.
- >> (Any ideas how to get the latest version of the manuals?)
- >
- >It sounds like the permissions are wrong on /dev/dsk/dos. If they
- >have the same major and minor numbers, then they connect to the same
- >device. The actual name does not matter, but the permissions do.
-
- I agree, conceptually. They're linked together, in fact. Empirically,
- however, I can't get to e: if I just run 'dos'; or, if I
- run 'dos +ae:=/dev/dsk/dos'. Works fine with 'dos +ae:=/dev/dsk/0s5'.
- In the former case, dos comes up, hesitates, rapidly flashes the 'Bad
- command or filename' message, and aborts.
-
- As another item, I find some programs can't use ems. Are there any known
- problems with this under MERGE?
-
- Cheers,
- Dave Ihnat
- ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us (preferred return address)
- ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us
-