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From: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC2.2 and uugetty-does it work?
Message-ID: <2742@ke4zv.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 91 21:13:07 GMT
References: <41212@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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In article <41212@cup.portal.com> dstein@cup.portal.com (Doug Mr-Science Stein) writes:
>I would like to set up a bidirectional serial port to allow a modem to work
>as either a dial-in or dial-out line.  As I recall, early versions of ISC's
>uugetty program (pre-version 2.2) were broken and never worked properly.

It may still be broken, but since the X5 patchlevel to 2.02 and in 2.21
you don't need to use uugetty at all. Simply hang a regular getty on the
port. When you dial out, the *driver* will automatically lock the getty
off for the duration of your call then respawn the getty after your call
is completed. Works like a charm. You must use the acux or tty0x device for 
out bound calls and hang your getty on the ttydx device where x is the
port number. The driver code will take care of the rest.

Gary