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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!lrk From: lrk@netcom.com (Lyn R. Kennedy) Subject: Re: Sharing a modem between FlexFAX and Kermit? Message-ID: <lrkD2vn29.9vp@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <kientzleD2M43C.8D6@netcom.com> <GENE.95Jan21172448@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 21:15:43 GMT Lines: 33 In article <GENE.95Jan21172448@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>, Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote: >In article <kientzleD2M43C.8D6@netcom.com> kientzle@netcom.com writes: > > The FlexFAX docs claim it can share a serial port with other > programs, but I've had no luck. I've tried setting FlexFAX > to use /dev/tty01 (minor mode 1) and Kermit to use /dev/cua01 > (minor mode 129), but Kermit keeps claiming that it can't get > access to the port. When I run Kermit as root, it claims > `device busy.' > Can anyone point me to the magic incantation that makes > this work? For the record, FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek > CD-ROM dist. I used the precompiled Kermit binary and compiled > FlexFAX from the `ports' directory. > >When a program uses the uucp locking protocol to lock the device that >flexfax has open (/dev/tty01), then flexfax close the device and >gets out of the way until such time as the lock is removed or the process >that created the lock has died. > >Make sure that kermit is creating the proper lock files. > I know it doesn't make sense but I have to run Flexfax on the same port as kermit (cua02 in my case). Seems if it is on ttyd02, it busys out the cua side. On the cua port, it is not busy except when checking the modem every few minutes. I'm still using 1.1.5.1 though. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 73, internet | lrk@k5qwb.lonestar.org | | Lyn Kennedy | lrk@netcom.com | | pony express = P.O. Box 5133, Ovilla, TX, USA 75154 | ---Livin' on an information dirt road a few miles off the superhighway---