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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD slattach and SLIP
Message-ID: <1210@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 90 07:43:05 GMT
References: <1990Jan11.170920.969@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Jan11.170920.969@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>Does the BSD slattach implement SLIP, or is it a lower level
>interface?

slattach simply opens the tty device, sets the baud rate and then sets the
line discipline to the SLIP line discipline code.  The actual input and
output framing are performed by the line discipline.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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