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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: uugetty [Was Re: Scripts to deal with A/UX's buggy UUCP]
Keywords: uugetty uucp
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.213859.14721@servalan.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:38:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.194813.10357@panix.uucp> <1991Mar12.170918.29890@mitem> <1991Mar15.145700.1799@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Mar17.082326.1851@panix.uucp>
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alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>While this is a matter of personal preference, I wouldn't replace the getty.
>If you're resistant to using the uupoll I posted, you can simply alter Apple's
>uudemon a bit. Use the code in uupoll to switch the line before uucico'ing,
>and switch it back later.

>As for why I prefer not messing with getty- the side effects are greater,
>that's all.

Ah, but the program we're all talking about (uugetty, ringback, tgetty, 
whatever you call it) doesn't replace the getty; it just waits for an
incoming call and *then* exec's the real getty.  It also does other nice
things, like resets the modem every time it starts up with a user-defined 
sequence, and optionally keeping nice logs of just what it's doing.  Besides,
I never did get the alleged "new improved" getty to work at all on dialins
without a "front-end" like tgetty active.  
--
Richard Todd	rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us
	rmtodd@servalan.uucp
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