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From: wayne@obiwan.uucp (Wayne Willcox)
Subject: Re: X windows : ioctl problems with xterm
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
Message-ID: <Dn78HF.6Bs@obiwan.uucp>
References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> <31177C54.2E@ordab.com> <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com> <slrn4hs701.66.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:44:03 GMT
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In article <slrn4hs701.66.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt>,
Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> wrote:
>In article <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com>, Craig Shaver wrote:
>
>Snip (parts deleted)
>> >    login: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>I got that error if the following is not in the config file for the
>kernel
>options "COMPAT_43"
>It's mentioned nowhere in the docs.
>
>-Feisal
>-- 
>Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt>   Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171
>Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies. 
>
>

if you don't enable options "COMPAT_43", the dialup getty will also 
choke you will beable to use cu to dial out but when you try and dialin
it will look like you have a baud rate mismatch. so the morale is don't
be me and comment it out and then wonder why getty is broke.

-- 
Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...
Wayne Willcox                          I will not eat green eggs and ham
wayne@obiwan.pmr.com                      I will not eat them Sam I Am!!
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