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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: modem with netbsd help needed
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <1993Sep6.064333.5177@informix.com>
Message-ID: <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com>
Keywords: telebit worldblazer modem netbsd
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 12:38:53 GMT
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Unless you have a uugetty replacement (that does the uucp locking handshake)
you have to install something that provides bidirectional ports (such as the
sio driver in FreeBSD), so far as I can tell. I can only assume that people
running NetBSD have dedicated dial-in/dial-out lines.