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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC2.2 and uugetty-does it work?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.031313.505@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
Date: 14 Apr 91 03:13:13 GMT
References: <41212@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr13.134338.23993@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr13.134338.23993@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>dstein@cup.portal.com (Doug Mr-Science Stein) writes:
>>I would like to set up a bidirectional serial port [with uugetty]
>The best solution to this problem is to use an intelligent tty port (via
>an intelligent card, or the FAS tty port driver). ...

The standard asy driver shipped with 2.2 supports separate /dev/ttydX and
/dev/asyX special files for dial-in and dial-out.  It also supports the
FIFOs on a 16550, important at 19.2K baud.  I've used it quite successfully
to handle dial in and out for uucp, using only the regular getty.

At 9600 or 19.2K FAS is preferable because it's faster, but at 2400 bps the
standard asy driver is fine.

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