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- IBMAUX1.SYS and IBMAUX2.SYS version 2.0 04/25/86
- Written by Wayne E. Conrad
- Modified by Gee M. Wong (Fido 107/312)
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- NOTICE
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- This facility may be used free anywhere by anyone. You use this
- facility whatever way you like, but you may not sell it.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- You may use this facility at you own risk. Neither the original
- author nor the party or parties which have modified the code make any
- expressed or impiled warranty of any kind with regard to these
- programs nor the documentation which follows. In no event shall the
- author nor the party or parties involded be liable for incidental or
- consequential damages in connection or arising out of the furnishing,
- performance or use of these programs.
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- If you can not accept the terms of this disclaimer, then kindly delete
- this document and the programs assocuated with it and forget that you
- ever saw them.
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- PURPOSE
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- This facility has been designed to provide the Sysop with a way to
- allow visting Sysops to exit to DOS for the purpose of assisting the
- HOST Sysop with an installation problem. The keyboard and screen
- redirection perform by this facility is not as robust as that provided
- by using either CTTY COM1 or CTTY COM2, but this facility has the
- advatange of permitting both Sysops to be able to see what is going
- on. This capablity enhances the Sysops ability to guide each
- other through DOS and to work together on solving a problem.
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- INTRODUCTION
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- IBMAUX1.SYS and IBMAUX2.SYS are a revised version of the IBMAUX.SYS
- device driver which is an original work of Wayne E. Conrad. I have
- simply modified the code to permit the user to establish a
- simultaneous keyboard and screen seesion at the DOS prompt with either
- COM1 or COM2 by using the commmand CTTY AUX1 or CTTY AUX2. The
- original version driver named IBMAUX.SYS only supported COM1 with the
- command CTTY AUX.
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- HOW TO USE THE IBMAUX DEVICE DRIVERS
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- To use this facility, you would code the following statement in your
- CONFIG.SYS file:
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- device=[d:][path\]IBMAUX1.SYS
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- if you intent to establish a simultaneous session through COM1, or
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- device=[d:][path\]IBMAUX1.SYS
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- if you intend to establish a simultaneous session through COM2.
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- The drive quailifer [d:] and the path qualifer [path\] are optional
- and may be omitted if the device driver is kept on the root directory
- of the boot drive.
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- With the appropriate device driver installed, you may establish
- simultaneous keyboards and screens by using the command:
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- CTTY AUX1
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- in place of
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- CTTY COM1
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- or
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- CTTY AUX2
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- in place of
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- CTTY COM2
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- KNOWN BUGS TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE FUTURE
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- 1) This facility will disable ANSI.SYS on the terminal in which the
- driver is invoked using the CTTY command. All ANSI type strings will
- be displayed on the terminal as though if the ANSI.SYS device driver
- was never specified in the CONFIG.SYS file.
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- 2) This facility does not support the use of control characters or
- backspace on the side that is communicating with the device driver via
- the modem line. Control-C will not cause a break, and although
- backspace will remove a character, the display will not reflect this.
- If you make a mistake and are confuse, it would be best to escape out
- of the current command line and to retype the command.
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- 3) This facility will hang your system if the device driver is invoke
- via the CTTY command but there is no body for the device driver to
- talk to via the modem.
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