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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pi From: pi@indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) Subject: Re: clocal in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <CvzzyC.BG4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: xyplex5-1-1.ucs.indiana.edu Reply-To: pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: A FreeBSD Enthusiast References: <Cvv0vo.IHK@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <1994Sep10.211804.22999@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 03:49:23 GMT Lines: 25 Thus it was recorded by the prophets, stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) said: >Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote: >: Under 1.1, I do "stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal" before running tip >: and all is fine. Under 1.1.5.1, this seems to have no effect; >: "stty -af /dev/tty01" says "-clocal". Yes! I've had *exactly* the same sort of problem... I spent hours with it and finally gave up and used the cua0x device instead. >Also take a look at /etc/rc.serial to see how to >use the initial and locking ports. With these you can set what the >intial open state is for a specific com port and also lock in an >unchangeable stty state on that port. I *thought* it was a problem with stty... I grabbed old copies of it and tried to recompile.. ugh. OK, so the problem is that tty0x comes locked by default so I can't change it. So how would I unlock it? Or where is that information stored? I couldn't find any /etc/rc.serial on my 1.1.5.1 system. -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Raymond L. Gilbert | "...the present rule in computing the circle's | | pi@indiana.edu | area is entirely wrong..." | | IUB Dept. of Physics | - Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/