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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Tip says Link Down
Date: 23 Jan 1994 18:07:07 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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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)

Try:
# stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal
(or sio01, whatever line it is) 
before running tip.

Nate
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