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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Honeydanber on Microport
Message-ID: <215@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 10:07:55 GMT
References: <480@wa3wbu.UUCP> <10060@tycho.UUCP> <10@vsi.UUCP>
Lines: 18
Keywords: dialers
Summary: HDB uucp on Microport

In article <10@vsi.UUCP>, sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
> In article <10060@tycho.UUCP>, lyndon@tycho.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> > Does anyone know why Microport doesn't provide the 'HDB' version of
> > cu, or if there's a difference?
> 
> The difference is that the HDB version should know how to work with uugetty.
> Don't know why they don't, though.  All I can get out of them is "It's
> public domain software and we don't support it."

Microport doesn't need uugetty to do what HDB is needed for... callin/callout
on the same physical port.  See SIO(7) of your system manual for details.


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