Fun With AUX: (Summary)

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2 total messages Started by Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet Mon, 04 Feb 1991 16:19

#8128

Author: Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 1991 16:19

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     ... the story so far...

     I couldn't get ROM-WACK to operate without first typing NEWCLI AUX:
NEWCLI AUX: would write the CLI prompt to my terminal, but refused to
take any input from it as a command (although it did correctly send-and-
receive characters from it. It is, after all, a full duplex terminal.)

     Someone suggested that I use <CTRL>-P instead of <RETURN> to send the
command. Sorry, it just advanced the cursor one line.

     Someone (actually, many someones) suggested I use a null modem cable.
It is true that I'm not currently using one, and that I haven't tried this
yet, but I'm suspicious about this one. If I need a null modem, then why:

        a) Does ROM-WHACK correctly process all commands (including Return)
once NEWCLI AUX: has been invoked?

        b) Does the AUX: CLI correctly process the full duplex echoing of
sent characters, but not sent commands?

        c) Is it necessary to use a NEWCLI AUX: to get ROM-WHACK to work
at all? I was under the impression that it would work right off a boot.

        d) Is it possible that ROM-WHACK requires a normal serial cable,
whereas a remote CLI requires a null modem? If so, then why c)? If not,
then why a)?

Any ROM-WHACK gurus out there? What's going on here?

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  Dennis Grant   3rd year CS student at Le College Militaire Royal de St-Jean
  DETUD595@CMR001.BITNET
  How much do I love thee? My accumulator overflows!

Re: Fun With AUX: (Summary)

#8145

Author: Jean-Noel MOYNE
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 02:02

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In article <43676@nigel.ee.udel.edu> 
Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca writes:
>         c) Is it necessary to use a NEWCLI AUX: to get ROM-WHACK to work
> at all? I was under the impression that it would work right off a boot.

      Well, there's one thing I know: once you've typed newcli aux:, the 
serial.device is then loaded in memory, where it stays resident. If you 
haven't open the serial port before calling rom-wack maybe it needs the 
serial.device to be resident, and maybe it doesn't know how to load it 
from the disk....

          It's just a guess ... JNM

--
These are my own ideas (not LBL's)

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