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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 dialing problem
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:03:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Most (maybe all) of the time when I dial with BL3 I am
> > told that device ttyS1 is locked and it won't dial.
> > first I dialed with Kermit in DOS and then booted
> > to linux and dialed. Would this be causing the problem?
>
> Probably. It appears the stale lock is from DOS.
>
> > Is there a fix, other than dialing twice?
>
> Reset the computer before booting Linux.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Thanks for the explanation. Dialing twice is probably faster than
rebooting DOS in my case. I was hoping I could just type some command to
open the stale lock (maybe include it in a dial script).. I am still
going online in DOS because DOS kermit has a scroll buffer in MDA mode.
But soon there may be an 'mgacon'!





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