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From: bill@bhhome.bh.org (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: modems and FreeBSD 2.0A
Date: 25 Nov 1994 03:37:32 GMT
Organization: Bill Heiser's Organization
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Peter da Silva (peter@bonkers.taronga.com) wrote:
: In article <3aq0ql$m9q@wizard.pn.com>, Bill Heiser <bill@bhhome.bh.org> wrote:

: >Is there any particular reason that CD must be high for FreeBSD 2.0A to
: >talk to the modem?  Is this a bug, or is it this way by design?

: It should only do that if CLOCAL is off. WIth CLOCAL on it should ignore
: the modem control signals.

I guess that means changing all of the modem-related applications to 
set a CLOCAL flag when opening the port (?)    Is there an easier 
"global" way to do this?  :-)


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