getty/uugetty -- what is the difference, really?

[Richard Foulk]

>Another difference is that getty displays the Login prompt immediately where
>as uugetty waits for some kind of input (carriage return or similar) before
>displaying the the Login prompt.
>
>This keeps two computers connected directly from spitting Login: Password:
>back and fourth all day.

That is an option of uugetty.  The default is to act just like getty.  To
get it to pause for a character before proceeding you need to invoke it
with the -r flag.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com