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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

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'!