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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: clocal in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
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Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <Cvv0vo.IHK@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <1994Sep10.211804.22999@news.csuohio.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 12:39:16 GMT
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In article <1994Sep10.211804.22999@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes:
>	Bidirectional ports have been made the default in 1.1.5.x
>This means that /dev/tty01 is by default set up as -clocal.  You
>should use /dev/cua01 major 28, minor 129 for dial out.

Thanks.

It would be useful if this were added to the FAQ, which doesn't mention
the cua* devices at all and still refers to "stty -f /dev/ttyXX clocal".

[At least, that's true of the FAQ 1.36 of 1994/06/28 which is the latest
I can find.]

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

Ooooh!  I didn't know we had a king.  I thought we were an
autonomous collective.