On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Roine Thunberg wrote:

>
> I want to run "doscmd" with com-port support.
>
> but can't figure out exactly what to write in .doscmdrc
>
> my desg puts out somthing like this
>
> ---
>    com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
>    com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
> ---
>
> in .doscmdrc I put something like this
> ---
>    assign com1: /dev/tty00 0x3f8 4
> ---

is the doscmd binary suid root? i've seen strange setups where you may
need to add yourself to secondary group 'dialer' or 'uucp' to get group
writeable permissions to serial devices in /dev

>
> since the program I want to use "finds" the device, "doscmd" doesn't
> complain during start up. But... it seems not to work. Any suggestions?
>
> Mabye I'll have to see the fact that "doscmd" doesn't suite my needs.
>
>         /Roine
>
> artee@garderoben.ath.cx
>

--Brian

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