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From: peterc@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter Creath)
Subject: Re: OpenDriver("\p.BOut, &refNum")
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.005421.22412@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Summary: Problem
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Jun7.161708.18727@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 00:54:21 GMT


dubuc@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Martin Dubuc @ Universite de Montreal) writes:
| I am trying to open the device driver of the printer serial port. The
| actual call is OpenDriver("\p.BOut", &refNum). The call to this
| routine returns error -98 (portNotConfig? it's an AppleTalk error!).
| If I open the serial communication port the same way, there are no
| problems. What's wrong?
 
Well, it sounds to me like you've got Chooser telling your Mac that
Appletalk is active.  Go to Chooser, deactivate Appletalk, and if the
problem persists, scream.

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