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From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
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Subject: Re: Help: PPP and Modem communications
Date: 22 Aug 1995 00:44:02 -0500
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Hi warbird, on Aug 20 you wrote:

> what device under NetBSD allows dialout?  According to the FreeBSD folks, tty0x is
> not what I want but instead /dev/cuaa???.  Problem is Netbsd doesn't have that 
> family of devices by that name at least.  All help appreciated.

You might try using /dev/ttym0. I think that there is another /dev/tty... but I have
read that it doesn't support all modem capabilities, or something like that. At
any rate, I use /dev/ttym0 without any problem.