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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dial-out/terminal program for Ultrix 4.x
Message-ID: <1991May18.171343.24595@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 18 May 91 17:13:43 GMT
References: <374@ncmicro.lonestar.org>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center
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ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:

>Alternately, has anybody had any better luck porting pcomm, xcomm or ECU
>to Ultrix?  In particular, how does one keep getty or uucp from grabbing
>the tty port while you're using it?

	Locks on modems are traditionally done by placing a lock file
with the device name in /usr/spool/uucp, named LCK..dev, so a lock for
a modem hooked up to /dev/ttyd1 would be LCK..ttyd1

	Other versions of uucp may have a separate lock directory or
naming scheme other than Ultrix' - Ultrix' uucp is a little closer to
uucp's ancestral roots.

	As far as pcomm, etc goes, I can't help you. When I need to get
Vt100 emulation, I run "vtem" - a Vt100 emulator, on top of tip.

mjr.