Path: utzoo!censor!teecs!belkin
From: belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Modems
Message-ID: <1690019@teecs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:37:33 GMT
References: <1990Jul02.173100.10477@groucho>
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
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/ teecs:comp.sys.hp / paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite) / 11:12 am  Jul  5, 1990 /

>We had trouble getting two way traffic to work, so we contacted the Response
>Center.  We were using uugetty, but they told us that uugetty is not intended
>for use with modems on HP-UX.  This doesn't jive with what we know from other
>platforms, but we followed the advice anyway and we have two traffic working
>with just getty.  The Response Center told us that uugetty is intended only
>for use with hard-wired links.  We did not have a special file correctly set
>up and the Responce Center also found that.  I suspect that once the special
>file was correct, we really could have gone back to uugetty on the modem port,
>but we want to do things HP's way.

I also have been told that by the Response center, but I never really
believed it!  It just doesn't seem to make sense to me.  Besides, I've
been running bi-directionally with uugetty for over a year with no
problems!  Once and for all, could someone at HP clear up this confusion?
If uugetty is "not intended for use with modems", then why not?  All
other unix versions I've seen provide uugetty for that exact reason!  Even
HP's own manuals talk about uugetty with modems! (In fact, the only
reference to uugetty on a direct line, is a warning that if there is a 
uugetty at each end of a direct line, the -r option must be used.)

My personal feeling is that there is a lot of confusion about getty/uugetty
within HP's ranks.  If I'm wrong (and I hope I am), then please, let's
hear a definitive answer on this.  If HP does it differently than 
everyone else, let's understand why!

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