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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Comm strangeness.
Date: 20 Dec 93 01:14:16
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In-reply-to: cddukes@eos.ncsu.edu's message of Mon, 20 Dec 1993 01:53:27 GMT

In article <1993Dec20.015327.17390@ncsu.edu> cddukes@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER D DUKES) writes:

   Is this standard operating procedure for *ix and modems?
   Is this a glitch in how the OS accesses the comm port?
   or
   Is this probably just a glitch in both software packages when they perform
   [deleted]
   -- 
   "Very Pete Townshendish." "Who?" "Exactly."
   cddukes@eos.ncsu.edu cdukes@nyx.cs.du.edu pakrat@vnet.ibm.com

It seems to be a preference that one of the FreeBSD people introduced.
You can get rid of the problem by setting clocal (stty -f /dev/tty?? clocal)
.... or is it the other way around ....

Brian.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>