Need help with modems under Ultrix
Simon Kenyon
simon at einode.UUCP
Wed Aug 13 01:28:38 AEST 1986
>
> [ I have written to him about this, but thought that others might have
> the same questions... ]
>
> In article <3097 at ncsu.UUCP>, mark at ncsu.UUCP (Mark Lanzo) writes:
>> The problem:
>> Nothing I or anyone at our site has been able to do has worked to
>> convince the system to handle the line properly. We had no problems
>> before when we were running under V1.1 of the OS, but apparently V1.2
>> handles terminals in a significantly different fashion.
>
> Yes indeed. Assuming the /etc/ttys file is set up correctly (and you
> should check this) you still need to tell the operating system to use
> modem control on the individual line(s) through the flag field in the
> config file for the system.
but how does one tell ultrix to start looking at modem signals?
i ended up writing a prog to do it :-|
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Simon Kenyon The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND
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