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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!noc.near.net!atria.com!jtk From: jtk@atria.com (John Kohl) Subject: Re: Bidirectional Getty for NetBSD-1.0 In-Reply-To: fls@k0yum.ampr.org's message of 19 Nov 1994 14:08:15 GMT Message-ID: <CzMFsK.7ty@atria.com> Sender: news@atria.com Nntp-Posting-Host: banana.atria.com Organization: Atria Software, Inc. References: <3al0sf$699@arpad.k0yum.ampr.org> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 14:19:31 GMT Lines: 16 >>>>> "Fred" == Fred L Schneider <fls@k0yum.ampr.org> writes: In article <3al0sf$699@arpad.k0yum.ampr.org> fls@k0yum.ampr.org (Fred L. Schneider) writes: Fred> Am I missing something? Is it possible to use one port and one modem Fred> for both in- and out-bound connections without reconfiguring /etc/ttys Fred> and killing/restarting the getty/init? Well, this may not be quite the answer you're looking for, but I run Sam Leffler's FlexFAX package (see the binary dist and sources on ftp.sgi.com) to handle my FAXing needs. It can supervise the line for incoming calls (switching between FAX and data as necessary) and get out of the way when UUCP or PPP or kermit wants to dial out. -- John Kohl <jtk@atria.com> or <jtkohl@mit.edu> working for but not representing: Atria Software sometimes hacking on: NetBSD/i386