[Xastir] Xastir + Cygwin

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "James" == James Mackie <jmackie at jmtech.ca> writes:

James> Morning All, Quick question, I am running Xastir and Cygwin on
James> my laptop, running Windows 98. I am running Xastir perfectly on
James> my RH9 Workstation.

Excellent.

James> The problem is I cannot get Xastir to connect to my radio thru
James> Cygwin.  Always give a 'Hard Fail'. I was able to fix this on
James> my RH9 machine by modifying the permisions on the /dev/ttyS0
James> file, however. On cygwin the 'device' that it is trying to open
James> is 'com1' and cygwin has no /dev folder :)

Right.  That's how Cygwin works.  No matter what directory you're in,
"com1" is the equivalent device name for /dev/ttyS0.

There are no equivalents for permissions in the Cygwin world.
Everyone's root in Windows 98.

James> Has anyone come across this problem and have a fix for it? Am I
James> missing something obvious? I can walk myself around linux no
James> problems, however this would be the first time I have tried to
James> have cygwin use the comports.

I've never seen this come up.  Sorry I don't have any useful
information for you.

James> James, VA7MTY

Jack.
(rebuilding hard drives this weekend.)
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