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From: gbl@uscyber.com (Gordon B Lugauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with serial console
Date: 21 Mar 1996 04:31:48 GMT
Organization: We ain't *cheese* folk 'round here
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In article <4ipn7c$79h@newsie.wis.com>,
Gordon B Lugauer <gbl@uscyber.com> wrote:
>
>Ok, I'm pretty well confused on this one.  What I want is a serial
>console- where I can hang a terminal or a modem of of a serial port and
>receive console i/o.  

[silly, vain discriptions deleted]

Oops, I feel really silly.  I wasn't using a null modem cable.  I hate
it when that happens.

-G, who wasn't using a null modem cable for far too many hours...