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Article #2306Re: pcomm
From: Matt Rollefson
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15
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In comp.sys.next.misc reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed) writes: >I just obtained Pcomm from sonata. I used ProComm in the dos world so >I am somewhat familiar with the program. My problem is that I get >this error message when I try to dial a number: >Can't open port "/dev/cua" for read and write >What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Well, as distributed, /dev/cua is owned by uucp and is only read-writable *by* uucp. Thus you will have to make pcomm owned by uucp and setuid in order for it to work correctly. Rollie -- Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!deathstar!draphsor From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: pcomm Message-ID: <1992Aug28.201526.4902@morrow.stanford.edu> Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <1992Aug24.232315.25195@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:15:26 GMT Lines: 18