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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: PComm won't talk to my modem (tty driver)
Message-ID: <mldCo6qE4.23n@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 06:37:15 GMT
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I have PComm compiled and running on my FreeBSD box. But I cannot for
the life of me get it to recognize the /dev/tty01 device (my modem).
"cu" recognizes the /dev/tty01 device with no problems. I have RTFM'd
all the docs. All I can seem to get is that the TTY should be set in
the setup menu (option 1). It is. From what I gather, Pcomm is
supposed to hunt for an available device, and lock onto the first one
it finds in the TTY list.
Evidently, it is not seeing my /dev/tty01 device. I do not have UUCP
running, or any gettys (for now). Does Pcomm actually use the
/etc/uucp/* files? There were config parameters for them in the docs,
but I am not using UUCP so I didn't twiddle with them.
Any help is much appreciated. OR if you have a good terminal program
with VT100 (xterm, whatever) emulation and Zmodem support I'd be
interested in that as a substitute.
(I read somewhere that there is a clever way to use sz with cu but it
requires a fancy command to properly redirect the I/O to sz... If
anyone knows THAT I'd also be appreciative.)
Thanks.
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