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From: andyb@stb.info.com (Masked Marauder)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: cannot get uugetty to work
Keywords: uugetty
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.175319.22639@stb.info.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 17:53:19 GMT
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In article <1990Jul1.052736.1484@rducky.uucp> jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING) writes:
>Symptoms:
>All outgoing commands (uucp, cu) work perfectly.  The modem will answer,
>but the uugetty acts down right bizarre.  It doesn't seem to see any
>incoming characters and spews out randowm characters along with a login prompt
>now and again.

This sounds like a mismatch of either speed or parity.  Make sure
your port is tuned to the same thing the incoming call is.  Note that
I know of at least one major *N?X where getty doesn't read logmodes
properly.  Send email if you need more help.

Andy