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From: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: TIOCNMODEM/tty/VS2000
Keywords: Permanent change to tty
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Date: 4 Feb 91 23:14:00 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
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> ... we
> have getty disabled and have run the following program.
> (Which should permanently disable modem control.)
> But when the system reboots, the port once again
> requires modem signals to avoid having writes block.

Unfortunately, "permanent" in this case means "until the next
reboot."   I'm not trying to be funny or snotty here, I mean exactly
what I wrote.  I don't believe the interface's state information
is preserved across reboots.

					Frank