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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: want to dial in
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.222638.25710@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:26:38 GMT
References: <1992Aug11.100209.5029@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1992Aug14.222957.12951@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1992Aug17.101919.21084@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
> 
>I was looking for a standard way to do it (switching my modem to no command echo
>etc.). Do you think editing /etc/gettytab and inserting something like

>D2400|d2400
>   :im=ATE0\r:

>would be appropriate? Or is this done elsewhere? I remember that in an earlier
>release of SCO (ODT 1.0) I had uugetty for this purpose. 
>What is the correct (standard / nohack ) method to set up the modem to avoid
>this "getty war" problem?

Well, what I did on my other system was to connect the modems to a DOS 
PC, make the changes using <your favorite telecom program>, then re-connect
the modem to the unix system.

I suspect you could do it just fine by using "tip" in 386BSD.  Just set
the modem registers appropriately (consult your manual), then save them.
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