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From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UUCP 1.03D
Message-ID: <90aD02Hz8eOo01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 15:27:54 GMT
References: <02072.AA02072@dreamer.UUCP> <9003050920.AA06068@sorinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX
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In article <9003050920.AA06068@sorinc.UUCP> magik%sorinc@PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup) writes:
>In article <02072.AA02072@dreamer.UUCP> thorp@dreamer.UUCP (Don Thorp) writes:
>
>>Also, I would like to call in and access the system from work.  Can I
>>execute a shell as the default command in the Getty:Passwd file?
>
>Well if you have a shell that uses only STDIN/STDOUT and does no special
>input processing that would require being at a keyboard, it should work.
>No guarantees tho....

I tried this with SKsh. It has a problem with the 1 second timeout for
the reads. Each second, a new prompt is written.

Anyone have any success in getting ANY type of shell working? I would
love to be able to dial in to the UUCP getty.

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