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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem Help...Please?
Date: 12 Mar 1996 00:00:56 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Both tip and cu pretty much suck as comms utilities.

No argument, though you might find

	cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 38400

come pretty handy since it runs out of the box, and it doesn't require
any setup.  It lets you talk directly to the modem at the first serial
port, at 38400 Baud.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)