Perle Systems Adaptors User Manual

UltraPort Serial Adaptors User Guide
Installing under SCO OpenServer and OpenServer6

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Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards

The Port Configuration utility allows you to configure the SPEED serial ports you have 

installed on your system. To do this proceed as follows:

1. In the command prompt, type spdpcfg and press the Enter key. Alternatively use the 

SCO OpenServer desktop as follows:

a. In the SCO OpenServer desktop, open the System Administration folder.

The System Administration window is now displayed.

b. In the System Administration window, click on the Perle Speed folder on 

OpenServer 5 or Perle-Serial folder for OpenServer 6 to open it.

The Speed window is now displayed.

c. In the Speed window, click on the Speed Port Configuration Icon.

The Port Configuration window is now displayed as shown in the next picture.

Note

If you want to perform transparent printing from any of the terminals attached to your 
system, you need to check the contents of the printcap.spd file to see if the 
terminal type you are using is supported. To do this proceed as follows:

1. Using a text editor, go to the /etc directory and open the file called 

2. Check the contents of the printcap.spd file to see if the terminal type you are 

using is supported. See 

 in 

 for 

the syntax of the entries in this file.

3. If the terminal type you are using is not supported, add an entry for the new 

terminal type (including the type, transparent print ON and transparent print 
OFF strings) to the printcap.spd file (

). See the user guide for your 

terminal for details of the entries required.

You can now configure the ports you want using the Port Configuration utility.