> >From previous mail messages, am I correct in believing that it is not
> possible to have a getty hanging off the serial port and still be able
> to dial out?

Correct.

> In other words, if I wanted to be able to dial into my machine to log in,
> but also to have a cron job that dials up an ISP and brings in/sends out
> mail, etc. I would either need another modem and phone line, or as
> part of the cron job, enough smarts to change /etc/ttys, kill the getty,
> change the permissions of /dev/ttyd0, dial out, etc, then restore
> everything.  Correct?

/dev/ttyd0? Sounds like the SunOS dialout device. We don't have one yet.

> As a followup, I have my Mac (an LC III, 10M ram, 1G drive) connected
> to a SupraFax 144LC modem - and I managed enough fiddling to get it
> set up so that it wasn't trying to interpret the login messages from
> getty and so that I could log in and out over the phone.  However, I
> can't seem to get tip to work correctly if I supply a phone number
> on the command line.
> 
> I would appreciate a pointer to a FAQ for this or a mail message with a
> working set of /etc/* files (remote, phones, gettytab, phones, etc).

Unfortunately we don't have a FAQ for these things yet. We've got SLIP &
PPP, but that's it for now.

> OB Good news - I may be able to get my hands on enough information to
> create a reasonable /dev/audio for the mac...  Am checking my sources.

Cool!

Take care,

Bill