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why no ctty in w2k?

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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: April 18, 2005 at 10:23:31 Pacific
Subject: why no ctty in w2k?
OS: w2k
CPU/Ram: PIII 933 / 256
Comment:

Seems like ctty got left out of w2k.

Any thoughts?

TIA

M2


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Name: wizard-fred
Date: April 19, 2005 at 00:51:23 Pacific
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Hi M2,

Ctty may be a too primitive a DOS function to run under Windows. Re-direction of console functions not possible because of i/o port driver isolation. Just a guess.


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