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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Slip Redialing FreeBSD 2.0R
Date: 7 Mar 1995 16:00:02 -0600
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In article <3jh21g$ofd@ccnet.ccnet.com>, Patric Miller <pjm@ccnet.com> wrote:
>   Ok, I give up. :(
>
>  Under 1.1 R the following worked fine
>slattach -c -h -r '/usr/local/bin/kermit -y /etc/slip/slip.dial' -s 115200 /dev/cua00
>
>  Now I am running 2.0 R from the WC Cdrom ( cool install ) and I endup in an
> endless loop of SIGHUP ...... from slattach followed by blazing RD/SD lights
> on my modem then another SIGHUP ...... and so on ..
>
> My next step is to hang a RS232 DataScope on my modem, Any other ideas?
>

This is a problem with kermit and slattach owning the modem device at
the same time. Use chat instead, it doesn't have this problem. Man
chat for details.

C.
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