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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: tip(1C) question
Message-ID: <1954@hao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 15:23:21 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.1954
Posted: Tue Feb 11 15:23:21 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:34:07 EST
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    We are trying to use tip(1C) on a VAX 750 4.2BSD system to communicate with
another 4.2 UNIX system (on a Callan) over an RS232 line attached to a tty
port. I made an entry in /etc/remote that looks like

hao-ig:dv=/dev/ttyh8:br#9600

  Then the getty for that port was disabled (by putting 0tttyh8 as it's line
in /etc/ttys and doing kill -1 1, standard port-disable procedure). When we
then try "tip hao-ig" the response is "all ports busy". I tried fooling around
with various things in el, ie and oe fields as well, but the response from
tip is invariant. What have I done wrong and/or left out? Has anyone else 
used tip(1C) for this sort of thing?

--Greg
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