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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!beauty!rwing!pat
- From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: HOW WILL DOS BE HANDLED UNDER SVR4.2 ??
- Keywords: DOS VP/ix?? merge??
- Message-ID: <1755@rwing.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 08:57:52 GMT
- References: <2AB41164.4BF1@telly.on.ca> <1754@rwing.UUCP> <1992Sep14.233937.1692@dlpinc00.rn.com>
- Organization: Totally Unorganized
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- In article <1992Sep14.233937.1692@dlpinc00.rn.com> dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker) writes:
- >In article <1754@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
- >
- >>nutshell, its a handy kludge. If one has a conventional serial port
- >>(not a 'smart' multiport card with its own CPU), DOS based communications
- >>programs like Procomm, etc even work. Even the 'smart' card assigned
- >
- >So what fax software runs under VP/ix?? I can't get anything to work
- >(BLAST Fax PC, DOS Fax Pro, MX Fax...). I'll probably come up with a
- >reasonably priced UNIX-based package before I find one that'll run
- >under VP/ix. That's what I'd prefer, of course, but it's not leaping
- >onto my system, and I haven't had any luck with NetFax or faxpak.
-
- I can't answer that question, never having tried it. If it doesn't use
- DMA, or the timer, it should be workable unless there is some other gotcha.
- One has to specify the i/o port RANGE when setting up something that must
- access hardware, if the docs for the hdwe don't give the start and end
- port number, one has to guess. Try giving the ending i/o port address
- equal to the starting port plus 16 for starters - thats what I had to
- do to get a network card to work.
-
- Also, if dual-ported RAM is involved, that also has to be correctly
- specified in the installation procedure.
- --
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