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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: PC 7300: Phone Manager vs. uucp
Message-ID: <3427@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 12:33:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: islenet.3427
Posted: Sat Aug 15 12:33:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 23:09:25 EDT
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Reply-To: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Islenet Inc.,  Honolulu
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In article <2772@hcr.UUCP> tom@hcr.UUCP (Tom Kelly) writes:
> I too have been looking for a way to switch the phone line from
> VOICE 1: IDLE to DATA 1 without human intervention.  I have discovered
> that killing the Phone Manager process (ph) and removing the LCK..ph0
> file does the trick, in that uucp will now use the line on demand.
> Furthermore, the line is no longer automatically answered.
> 
> I would prefer a more elegant way, partly because cu(1) doesn't seem
> to work, and I like using the phone manager for terminal emulation
> because you can swap between the remote session and a local unix session.
> 

If uucp will use the line okay then cu should also, unless the cu on
the 7300 has been modified, which I doubt.  Perhaps you just need to
change the permissions on the port.

cu does allow you to switch between the remote session and local unix
processes.  To get a local shell just type ~!sh at the beginning of 
a line.  And since the remote half of cu stays connected anything
coming from the remote system will show up on you screen while you're
in you local shell.  So if you make a script or an alias that sends
a line of text to the modem port you can alternately command the local
and the remote systems from your local shell.

You can also use the window system to get a local shell if you prefer
playing with windows.

The Phone Managers terminal emulator is so slow I can't see how anyone
could stand to use it, except maybe at 300 baud.  And it seems to have
gotten even slower with the new release.

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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii