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From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bidirectional Modem Lines under SunOS 4.0.1
Message-ID: <1626@vicom.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 89 00:41:11 GMT
References: <160@osc.COM> <743@key.COM> <2209@laidbak.UUCP> <1395@auspex.auspex.com> <3748@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <3748@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
=In article <1395@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
=> Opens on the "dial-in" device block until carrier comes up. [...] Opens on
=> the "dial-out" device succeed even if carrier isn't up, [...] In addition,
=> once the dial-out device is open, any opens on the dial-in device [...] will
=> *NOT* complete when carrier comes up!...
=
=This is likely to cause problems if you're trying to implement callback,
=isn't it?

Absolutely!  I have struggle many an hour trying to figure out a way to
do a callback that drops into getty.  I have yet to figure it out and,
apparently, neither has anyone else with a Sun.
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com