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From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: USR HST/ds Help
Summary: Not so
Message-ID: <1704@tssi.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 90 16:52:03 GMT
References: <150@adsi.UUCP>
Organization: Tailored Software Svcs, Lincoln Neb
Lines: 67

In article <150@adsi.UUCP>, larrys@adsi.UUCP (Larry Slavick) writes:
> 
LS> Has anyone connected a USR HST dual standard to a NCR Tower 32/700?
LS> I would like to know how to set up the configuration files to take
LS> full advantage of this modem in either HST or v.32 modes.  I would
LS> like to use this modem for dial-in or dial-out access.  Any help
LS> would be appreciated.

In an item on the NCR mailing list that I haven't seen on comp.sys.ncr,
Susan Davis replies:

SD> I haven't connected a USR HST but I know from trying uucp on a 32/700 that
SD> only an NCR 2500 microcom modem works with uugetty and that uugetty has
SD> got enough bugs in the first release (1.0) that you would be better if
SD> you used a separate modem for dialing in and dialing out and don't use
SD> it at all.

Perhaps all this applies to the 32/700 but not to other Towers.  I'm running
a 450, on 2.01.00 (aka System V Release 2 1/2).  I'm using uugetty on a
bidirectional line and an Everex 2400 modem.  The only problem I've
encountered, which I've documented in this newsgroup before, is that the
system fails to log off a user if the phone line drops without a CTRL-D
having been sent, this leaving a slight security hole.

I've also been able to use a very non-Hayes modem in this capacity, and
the biggest problem I had was writing a Devices entry to handle dial-outs.
 
I understand NCR attempted to 'improve' uugetty, and that some of the
improvements didn't work out so well.  

And if the 700 is substantially different than the 450, excuuuuse me!

Below are the entries from my system:
  
The inittab entry for this line is as follows:

t07:1:respawn:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -h -r 3 -t 60 tty07 A vt100  

I have made a few minor modifications in the gettydefs file, so that A
cycles only between a 2400 baud (first choice) and a 1200 baud line:


A# B2400 ISTRIP CS7 PARENB NL1 CR1 ECHO # B2400 HUPCL PARENB TAB3 ECHO SANE #login: #A2

A2# B1200 ISTRIP CS7 PARENB NL1 CR1 ECHO # B1200 HUPCL PARENB TAB3 ECHO SANE #login: #A

B# B300 ISTRIP CS7 PARENB NL1 CR1 ECHO # B300 HUPCL PARENB TAB3 ECHO SANE #login: #B

C# B9600 ISTRIP CS7 PARENB NL1 CR1 ECHO # B9600 HUPCL PARENB TAB3 ECHO SANE #login: #C

Contents of Devices entry:

ACU tty07 - 1200 hayes   
ACU tty07 - 2400 hayes24 

Dialers entry, modified as suggested by Vernon Hurdle:

hayes	=,-,	"" \dATQ0L1&D3\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c CONNECT
hayes24	=,-,	"" \dATQ0L1&D3\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T\r\c CONNECT


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