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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: MORE 6386 UUCP WOES ...
Keywords: cu, Hayes Modem, tty, asy, sio, modem control
Message-ID: <250@eda.com>
Date: 25 Oct 88 00:57:13 GMT
References: <319@argon.UUCP> <2096@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <727@wsccs.UUCP> <16509@onfcanim.UUCP> <1988Oct21.033839.1412@ixpierre.uucp> <490@redsox.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA
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In article <490@redsox.UUCP> campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
| In article <1988Oct21.033839.1412@ixpierre.uucp> woods@ixpierre.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:

| }Does anyone besides Microport and Sun support simple bi-directional
| }port usage by having a device driver which will prevent a getty's open
| }on the modem control device from completing whenever the no wait

Ultrix 2.0 provided this capability by specifying it in the almost
/etc/ttys file, which was a cross between BSD4.3 ttys and sysV inittab.

| The lack of this simple feature is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING, guys.  Are you
| listening, AT&T (and Interactive and SCO and Altos and DEC and...)?

Ultrix is a *nix provided by _____________________________^

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