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From: michaelb@mikebat.UUCP (Michael R. Batchelor)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: cannot get uugetty to work
Summary: Did anyone figure out how to enable and disable an external modem?
Keywords: uugetty
Message-ID: <389@mikebat.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 15:41:13 GMT
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Organization: M. Batchelor's PC7300, Beaufort, SC
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I'm trying to get an external modem to selectivly answer/not_answer
the phone depending on the time of day. There was some discussion about it
a few weeks ago, but I never saw a resolution. I'm still using Version 2
uucp (L.sys etc.) so I don't have uugetty. So far I've got a set of scripts
that "setgetty 000 0" so I can access the port, then feed cu a list of
instructions known to turn off the AA function. Another script reverses
everything. These things work flawlessly when I call them from a prompt,
but are at best flakely when run from cron. If anyone ever got this working
please send me mail.

As a side note, I enabled hardware flow control (from UA, couldn't figure
out how from a prompt) but the machine apparently leaves DTR high regardless
of the getty state. On my machine at work I leave the modem in AA and just
disable the port. The modem sees DTR low and disables AA. Is there a way
to get this working on a 7300?

Michael
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