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SUMMARY:Console environ. settings for decstation 5000/260

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From: Andy Ram
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00
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>URGENT URGENT  URGENT
> This is definitely a no-brainer, but we seem to have lost the owners
manual and the archives are down now.....
>
>Could anyone please give me the printenv settings for a decstation 5000/260
so that  I can use my graphics monitor instead of the output from the
console going to the serial port.
>
>As of now as soon as the workstation loads up console output switches to
the serial port at the back instead of the graphics monitor.
>
>Current env settings
>
>osconsole= 0,3
>console=1
>#=3
>

I unsetenv the "console= " setting and installed the OS again. The drivers
for the graphic controller were not installed the first time. The machine
configured itself.

Thanks to
Andrew Paine apaine@ecolan.sbs.ohio-state.edu
Nuno Leitao  <nleitao@ipp.pt

and anyone else who I might have missed.

andy 

Andy Ram
Sr. Engr. Ph  852-26083767  fax: 852-2601 6936
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