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From: burgess@cynjut.infonet.net (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Trying to use a serial terminal...
Date: 17 Mar 1995 20:43:14 -0600
Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc.
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References: <D5CC4r.Dpz@mv.mv.com> <3k69mf$abr@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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In article <3k69mf$abr@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>Perhaps you told the getty to use a modem-style port, but your
>terminals don't assert the DCD (carrier detect) line.  (Now, that is
>_really_ becoming a FAQ, though it's very basic Unix serial line
>knowledge at all.)  Either wire your connectors so that they fake
>


But it's in there.

I *PROMISE*.

I think I promise.

Ah, what the heck; it MUST be.  

Now, where did I put that copy of the FAQ....


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