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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: Dialin & Dialout on the same line
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chris@shell.portal.com (Chris - Ding) writes:

>Hi,

>Anyone knows if it is possible to use one com port as both dialin and dailout ?
>That is I allow someone to login from a modem attached to com1 while I use
>uucp to call a mail feeding site on the same port and modem.

Ye it is possible. It'll be in the patchkit in the end, but
for now you could try chris's driver. You can get it at agate.berkeley.edu
in the directory pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/<xxx>, where
x is something with multiport in it. It also contains bidirectional
ports.

>It seems it is possible on System V. I haven't seen any place in the Sparc
>manual where this issue is discussed.
Sparc manual???

>Chris Ding
>chris@shell.portal.com
>--
>Chris Ding
>chris@portal.shell.com

Now...what is the real email adres...let me guess..chris@com.portal.shell? :-)

-Guido