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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: want to dial in
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.101919.21084@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:19:19 GMT
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>>I want to use my 386BSD now for dialing in. 
>>I tried the D2400 getty type and when I switched off-on my modem I saw the
>>send/receive leds on the modem flash in conjunction with a console
>>message saying that there was some overflow problem at com1 (silo or
>>something like that). It looked like there was a feedback storm at the
>>input port.

>If you used your modem for DOS, you'll have to change the default settings.
>(This isn't a 386BSD problem, but a generic UNIX issue).  You need to turn
>off anything that echoes result codes or status back from the modem to 
>the computer, or you'll have a getty war.
>-- 
>bill@unixland.natick.ma.us                      ESIX Mailing List Moderator
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I was looking for a standard way to do it (switching my modem to no command echo
etc.). Do you think editing /etc/gettytab and inserting something like

D2400|d2400
   :im=ATE0\r:

would be appropriate? Or is this done elsewhere? I remember that in an earlier
release of SCO (ODT 1.0) I had uugetty for this purpose. 

What is the correct (standard / nohack ) method to set up the modem to avoid
this "getty war" problem?

--Chris
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