From: utzoo!decvax!cca!JIM@Washington@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: getty.c (again!) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3356 Posted: Sun Sep 19 18:10:01 1982 Received: Tue Sep 21 04:37:33 1982 From: Jim ReesDate: 16 Sep 1982 0658-PDT I can beat a dead horse as well as anyone. I will never understand why the people who install rs-232 lines insist on being so lazy. The reason I never saw the ringing problem is that the systems I use carry the necessary status lines. And no, you don't need 8 of them, just one extra (DCD) will do. Besides being the correct way to wire your terminal, it is very convenient for a couple of reasons. One is that it solves the ringing problem. Another is that if you get yourself hopelessly hung up in something, you don't have to find another terminal and kill yourself, you just unplug the rs232 from your terminal and when you plug it back in you have been logged out and have a new getty process. You have to admit that the delay is annoying, and that wiring the terminal correctly solves the problem. My sympathies to those of you whose terminals are wired wrong. Jim Rees Jim@Washington ...!ucbvax!lbl-unix!uw-beaver!jim ...!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!jim -------