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From: simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Need help with modems under Ultrix
Message-ID: <142@einode.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 11:28:38 EDT
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> 
> [ I have written to him about this, but thought that others might have
> the same questions... ]
> 
> In article <3097@ncsu.UUCP>, mark@ncsu.UUCP (Mark Lanzo) writes:
>> The problem:
>>     Nothing I or anyone at our site has been able to do has worked to
>> convince the system to handle the line properly.  We had no problems 
>> before when we were running under V1.1 of the OS, but apparently V1.2
>> handles terminals in a significantly different fashion.
> 
> Yes indeed.  Assuming the /etc/ttys file is set up correctly (and you
> should check this) you still need to tell the operating system to use
> modem control on the individual line(s) through the flag field in the
> config file for the system.
but how does one tell ultrix to start looking at modem signals?
i ended up writing a prog to do it :-|
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