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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Controlling answer tone sequence
Message-ID: <7142.27F6C1AE@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: 31 Mar 91 15:45:02 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario
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Dave McLane (davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp ) wrote:

 >Unless somebody has something new to add, I think that 
 >answers the 
 >question: for UNIX, you have to use a modem who 
 >initialization for 
 >dial-in can be stored wholly in the modem (via RAM or DIP 
 >switches).

   OK, 'original' thought: init is set up to respawn getty on your login tty 
ports; could you perhaps spawn something else which would init the modem and 
then exec getty?
 
 
 

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