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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: uugetty woes fixed (was: com2 under 386/ix)
Summary: It's all in the support
Keywords: serial, 386ix, UUCP, uugetty
Message-ID: <106@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 89 18:22:59 GMT
References: <16@nstar.UUCP> <3064@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <103@dumbcat.UUCP> <104@dumbcat.UUCP> <109@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
Lines: 18

In article <109@nstar.UUCP> root@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
> In article <104@dumbcat.UUCP>, marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) writes:
> > It IS possible to run bi-directional ports with uugetty on 386/ix.  But it
> > could have been a lot easier with a few helpful hints in the documentation.
> 
> That's why I removed ISC on my box - it did not run as advertised.
> Brian assured me that a fix for the uugetty problem would be fed-exed to
> be this last week - but it never arrived.  The docs are bad - real bad.  

There was nothing to fix (except the documentation).  All Interactive needs
to do (short term) is prepare a two or three page addendum on ``How to
configure 386/ix for two serial ports'' and another on ``How to configure a
port for bi-directional operation.''  In the long term they need better
documentation.  And more of it.

--marc
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// Marco S. Hyman		{ames,pyramid,sun}!pacbell!dumbcat!marc