On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 10:39:41AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > A serial connection at 57600 would probably be ok for low-graphics X, but
> > I'm not sure how well the SE/30 would handle the 57600 baud. I'd really
> > recomend an ethernet card, if you can find one. If not, be sure to use a
> > hardware-handshaking cable between the macs (a printer cable is perfect),
> > and set the "local" flag in /etc/ttys. And turn on both DTR and CTS
> > handshaking in PPP under MacOS.
> 
> Eh? Doesn't /etc/ttys only get used by getty processes? On my system, I
> have tty00 marked as off, but its other settings include a speed of 19200,
> which is half of what I run on that port for my SLIP connection.

No, the ttyflags command also uses /etc/ttys to set certain default flags.
None of the slip or ppp programs look at it, though.

Take care,

Bill