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From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Dialing in/out with System V
Message-ID: <167@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 18:00:23 EST
Article-I.D.: wa3wbu.167
Posted: Wed Oct 28 18:00:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 12:10:25 EST
Organization: John Gayman,WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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    In System V is there an *easy* way to use the same modem for
dialing in and dialing out ?  I am currently running Microport on
a 80286 machine, and they have a device node /dev/ttyM0 for example
that if you use this in your inittab, you can leave the modem in
autoanswer with a getty on; plus dial out at will with cu and kermit.
Everything works wonderful.

    Well today I got involved a bit with a NCR Tower series of machine
and found out that you *must* use seperate modems for autoanswer and
autodial! I couldnt beleive this. IS there an easy workaround or is this
a System V 'feature' ??  They have some kind of kluge script setup 
to edit the inittab, init -q and then dialout, then edit inittab, init -q
to re-enable the getty on the modem port...YYeeuucckk! :-)  

    If anybody can shed some light on this 'feature' and what some
alternatives might be I would be grateful. Meanwhile, Im going to 
inquire to Microport and see what makes their ttyM0 so special instead
of the usual plain /dev/tty0. Thanks!

					John


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