Subject: Re: dial-up-questions
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/24/1999 09:42:42
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > When did this start? ZSTTY_RING_SIZE really works for getting rid of
> > floods, but it doesn't do much about silo overflows. Those come from
> > something sitting at splhigh for too long.
> 
> It started sometime early this month.

Might be some of the interrupt level re-assignments Scott did to try and
fix the two-disk losage.

> > We have a tip-running-as-cu in the tree.
> 
> Hmm... I don't think I like tip's "cu." After making the link in the
> obj directory,
> 
> 	root-> ./cu -p modem
> 	tip: unknown host cu1200
> 	Bad flag -proot-> 
> 	root-> ./cu
> 	usage: cu telno [-t] [-s speed] [-a acu] [-l line] [-#]
> 	root-> ./cu -s 57600 -l /dev/tty00
> 
> And it just returns immediately. It seems to really want a phone
> number as the first argument, which is bad when you simply want to
> talk directly to the modem.

Try "dir" for a direct connect, at least in -current, according to the man
page. :-)

Take care,

Bill