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From: randy@chinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP dialout, uugetty fighting...
Message-ID: <1469@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 19:57:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1469
Posted: Wed Sep  2 19:57:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 06:38:36 EDT
References: <2896@psuvax1.psu.edu> <1463@chinet.UUCP> <18171@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Xref: utgpu comp.sys.att:945 comp.unix.questions:3440


|In article <18171@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson) writes:
||In article <1463@chinet.UUCP> randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess [me]) writes:
||
||
||	If you are using a Hayes compatible modem, it can't be done without
||	some hardware hacks. (in reference to modems and 3b2's)
||
|
|This is not true.  What you need to do is substitute a new getty for
|that line which understands the lock files created by the dial-out
|programs (uucp, cu, tip...) and stops looking at the line until the lock
|file disappears.  I have been using such a program with a Hayes modem
|with no problems.  The program is a stripped down version of a more
|general-purpose getty posted to comp.unix.sources a few months back.
|

	How do you handle the problems of the 3b2 port drivers 
	requiring CD (pin 8) to be hi to dial out, and the needs
	of the 3b2 to see CD go hi and lo for proper login/logout/hangup?

-- 
that's the biz, sweetheart.....
Randy Suess
..!ihnp4!chinet!randy