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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Monitoring a tty
Message-ID: <1991Jan04.021057.12420@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 4 Jan 91 02:10:57 GMT
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harry@svnet.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:

>ji@ctr.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
>. [...]

>Just don't wire your Data Transmit line into the connection, you may end
>up sending answerback information, etc and screw up the line.

the line wouldn't work at all, since the tap-terminal would hold the
line on the same level (voltage) all the time. only connect to the signal
ground and to the data line that carries the characters to the terminal
(modem, whatever) to be tapped.
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