uugetty on Altos not behaving properly?

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <344 at cpmain.UUCP> by mikej at cpmain.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston):
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| Obviously I am doing something wrong but as I look through the manual it
| appears that there is no real configuration for this command. Just place it
| in /etc/inittab and let 'er rip. 
| 
| I called Altos on this one and their response was that uugetty was only meant
| for an Altos to call another Altos running uugetty. The sad part about it
| was that they were serious. 
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Every so often, you call Altos tech support and get a chucklehead.  It
hasn't happened to me recently, but it *has* happened....

(1) You MUST make sure the modems don't echo and don't return result codes.

(2) The Xenix and early "Altos System V" versions of uugetty are broken.
    The solution to this is to upgrade, but as this is non-trivial and rather
    expensive if you're running Xenix, I'd use one of the Usenet replacement
    uugettys (like "modem", posted you-know-where...) instead.

++Brandon
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