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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!martha.utcc.utk.edu!martha.utcc.utk.edu!frank From: frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner) Subject: flexfax & comcontrol Message-ID: <1993Oct24.162354.15503@martha.utcc.utk.edu> Sender: usenet@martha.utcc.utk.edu (USENET News System) Organization: ifan (inst. for appl. nonsense) X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 16:23:54 GMT Lines: 25 hi, soft/hardware: noname486/33isa&16M&adaptec1542b&ast-comp.4port&supra_fax_v32bis& freebsd_epsilon&flexfax&... ok, here the problem/question: I'm running the above hard/software (the best combination you can get for less then $2000 ;-) and was wondering whether someone might have a similar problem/inconveniency: I'm used to use my modemport as dialin/out port (uucp, tip), using the bidirectional sio driver (comcontrol /dev/whatever bidir (btw. great improvment compared to /dev/comXX )), but while running faxd it seems to be impossible to run the serial port in the 'bidirectional mode' ? so: is there a way (to abuse the serial port three times ;) ? or do I have to 'faxquit' & 'comcontrol /dev/whatever -bidir' in order to dialout ? but however: thanx to Sam Leffler (for flexfax) and the rest of the bsd-folks ! so long, frank