Setup problems with SCO SysV

[Tom Yager]

I'm hoping that some lucky person has found solutions to all of these
problems, and that he or she can impart them to me in a brief mail
message.

I am faced with having to switch my main system from a nice, comfortable
Interactive 2.2 to a somewhat unfamiliar SCO 3.2. The particular version
in question is OEMed by Altos, but it's plain old SCO except for Altos'
enhancements to the disk drivers (striping, mirroring, multi-channel SCSI,
etc.) and some cute utilities and apps.

It's been years since I've had to fiddle with SCO UNIX, and at one time, I
had solutions to these problems (at least I think I did), but now I've
forgotten them all. SCO experts, have at--here's the list:

- I need to have a shared (incoming/outgoing) modem line. I tried setting up
  tty1A according to the manual, but got all kinds of unpleasant behavior,
  including intermittent failure to drop DTR after logout (yes, I added
  HUPCL to gettydefs) and obvious failure of getty to get out of the way
  when cu or uucico comes up. I have the sources to the FASY driver (it's
  running now on my ISC system) and will resort to that if necessary, but
  I'd like to know if stock SCO can deal with this. Dare I mention that I
  also need hardware flow control? (RTSFLOW is already set in gettydefs)
  I have tried uugetty with no success, and don't relish the idea of hacking
  on those horrid C dialer programs (I use the more traditional System V
  Devices and Dialers file structures, purposely skipping those C dialers).
- I, and the users who dial into my system, like being able to address mail
  with Internet addresses and have them automatically parsed and passed to
  a relay host via UUCP. smail's doing it for me now, and, again, I can
  wimp out and install that under SCO, but my colleague at BYTE assures me
  that MMDF is equal to the task. Will MMDF, without great hassle, take
  fred!wilma at uunet.uu.net and turn it into smarthost!uunet.uu.net!fred!wilma?

That's enough for starters. I'm hoping my initial failures will be quickly
replaced by quick progress toward the system swap. All advice appreciated--
please respond via email. Thanks.
(ty)

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