Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp Subject: Re: UUCP on my 3b1 Message-ID: <9606@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 18 Sep 89 04:53:11 GMT References: <337@lock60.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 19 In article <337@lock60.UUCP> mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) writes: >I needed to use the built-in modem for both >incoming (uucp and remote logins) and outgoing (uucp and cu) applications. [...] >The first thing I did was to replace uucico with a shell script that would >"reverse" the line befor starting uucico. Mine works both ways "out-of-the-box", no special programming needed. You do need to be sure the inittab entry looks just the way it is set up by ua because the cu & uucp dialers modify inittab to kill the getty and they are easily confused. >After I found out that you can't exec() a shell >script in SYS V [..] execlp() and execvp() will do shell scripts, the other variations don't. Les Mikesell