In message <200404291333.i3TDX6Ra001762@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:
>Well, I have no idea; this, or something like it, worked for a while
>yesterday.  But now... No matter what, come rain or snow, I 100% reliably
>get an I/O error trying to open the pty I specify to irs or ircomm.  There's
>No amount of verbosity on ircomm or irs gives me any indication that it's
>even heard of a pty, or that it is aware of someone trying to connect.

Important note:  There is no problem so dire, so subtle, that actually
sleeping a little can't fix it.

Today's lesson is that when ircomm runs on /dev/ptyq0, pppd needs to run
on /dev/ttyq0, not on /dev/ptyq0.

I still have no idea what's going on with ircomm in command-line mode; it's
surreal.  But this is now working.  Woo!

-s