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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Sending "AT" command via getty?
Message-ID: <1569@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 90 16:42:12 GMT
References: <633@westmark.UU.NET>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <633@westmark.UU.NET>, dave@westmark.UU.NET (Dave Levenson) says:

> I, too, wanted something like this.  Having no source code for
> uugetty, and not wanting to re-invent that wheel, I did the following:

> Write a new program that takes exactly the same command line
> arguments as getty, plus another one (I used -A) specifying a file

getty or uugetty?
If we're talking in-bound only getty, okay.  If you're talking about 
bi-directional uugetty, your script could interfere with other processes,
unless it manipulates the lock files the same way that uugetty does.  
Does the program 'ct' like your manipulations?  

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