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From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts)
Subject: Re: Tip says Link Down
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 20:06:43 GMT
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In article <1994Jan18.175652.7474@rchland.ibm.com>,
John Nistler <john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have a modem connected to sio01 and everything worked fine using tip on 386bsd + patches, but now that I did a source upgrade to FreeBSD 1.0 I can not get tip to work. 
>
>When I enter the command:
>tip work38400              (the work38400 is the name in the remote file)
>
>all I get is:
>Link down                  (which seems realy strange)
>
>I debugged the tip code some and it seems to be having trouble on the open of /dev/sio01.  Anybody have a clue? 
>


try:

stty -f /dev/sio01 clocal

Also, be sure that in your /etc/remotes file you have a 'pa=none' entry
next yo your 'work38400' entry.



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