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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: getty/uugetty -- what is the difference, really?
Message-ID: <1991May8.113813.15623@pegasus.com>
Date: 8 May 91 11:38:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.130247.13241@virtech.uucp> <831@tiamat.fsc.com> <1991May3.131122.29675@cbnewsl.att.com>
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>Another difference is that getty displays the Login prompt immediately where
>as uugetty waits for some kind of input (carriage return or similar) before
>displaying the the Login prompt.
>
>This keeps two computers connected directly from spitting Login: Password:
>back and fourth all day.

That is an option of uugetty.  The default is to act just like getty.  To
get it to pause for a character before proceeding you need to invoke it
with the -r flag.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com