Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!pcg
From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: help with modem needed
Summary: uutty has its merits even with tty[mM]?
Keywords: modem, 386, help
Message-ID: <508@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 13:01:15 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Distribution: eunet,world
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth, Wales
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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	[ ... about using uutty or getty on Microport ... ]

While it is true that uutty was *primarily* written by J.Chambers to
be able to use the same line for incoming and outgoing calls under
*Xenix*, and that this can be accomplished much more neatly under
Microport by using the tty[mM]?, uutty still has some advantages,
for example logging, and the fact that you have sources and can
customize it. It is also _marginally_ faster, as it does both getty
and login in one go.

In any case, even with uutty it is simpler to use the tty[mM]? mechanism
for arbitrating between incoming and outgoing calls, unless you have a
really exotic setup.
-- 
Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi	   | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth	   | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk