6386E/33 goofiness with DOS and modem

[Colonel Panic]

In article <11954 at netcom.UUCP> jbreeden at netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes:
>You ONLY need console redirection if you arn't using a PC monitor and 
>keyboard (the 'default' console). 

True.  But this is the DEFAULT configuration.  As shipped, the machine
comes with console redirection to COM2 enabled (I've configured 6 of
these things, and it's been the same on each).

>The 'problem' you've noted isn't a bug, it's pilot ErRoR (mis-configuration) (-:
> John Robert Breeden

I disagree.  If the machine requires that the redirection be disabled
manually before using DOS, then that fact should be documented.
It's not.  (Nor are a number of other niceties about this machine.
A lot of the controlling utilities for configuration are not documented
at all, e.g. /etc/machid, /etc/isat386, chkconsole, etc. etc.)

BTW, I have since moved the modem to COM1 (once I got the right
wireable connectors), so this isn't a problem for me anymore...

--
Alan Denney      aland at informix.com      {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland

 "Girl, we couldn't get much higher."  -  Joe Isuzu