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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MNP Auto-Reliable + getty: happy accident or design?
Message-ID: <11482@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 89 16:47:02 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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When a pair of modems are negotiating MNP modes they're doing this
*AFTER* they've printed 'CONNECT' to their serial ports and they
do this by sending BREAKS at each other in particular ways.

I'd call it a lucky accident that it does something useful to the
getty.  Normally you'd expect the getty to get confused because of
the noise it'd see.
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<- David Herron; an MMDF guy                              <david@ms.uky.edu>
<- ska: David le casse\*'      {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
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<- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.