Subject: Re: uugetty for NetBSD
To: Gerald C. Simmons <simmons@darykon.wa.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1996 11:17:44
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Gerald C. Simmons wrote:

> Pardon for intruding, but I'd like to ask a more basic question here. I have a
> system that I'd like to setup for UUCP, demand-dial-out PPP, and dial-in PPP,
> all through the same port (One Modem, One Line.)
> 
> What's the best strategy to use to accomplish this?  uugetty? mgetty?
> bidirectional patch?

All you need for this is locking on getty, assuming that you can
initialise you modem to a fixed speed on power-up. Either my patch
to getty (on <http://www2.portal.ca/~cjs/>) or a full getty
replacement, such as mgetty, will do.

cjs

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