HDB uucico vs. uugetty

[Marc W. Mengel]

In article <489 at redsox.UUCP> campbell at sushi.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
$OK, I give up.  I _cannot_ get uugetty to work.  Either I'm doing something
$very obscurely wrong, or HDB uucp is totally braindead.
$...
$If I tell uucp to use /dev/ttyM01, then uucico dutifully waits for carrier
$to come up...  forever, because the open won't complete until carrier comes
$up...  at which point the poor guy trying to dial in gets really confused
$when uucico starts dialing at him.
$
$Am I screwed?  Or is it possible to dial in and out on the same line?

Use \M and \m in your Dialers file (to disable/enable  carrier detect)
and "ttyM01,M" in your Devices file... (Why is it I seem to post this
about once a week?  Probably because the 3.0 docs didn't bother to 
mention it...)

$Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.