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From: mhm@cbterra.ATT.COM (Mike H. Moran)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIXPC uucp problem
Summary: uugetty is ok, you need it if you want to call out on the
	 same line as in comming calls.
Message-ID: <3915@cbterra.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Jul 88 15:28:25 GMT
References: <1988Jun27.202651.9458@ziebmef.uucp> <103@cjsa.UUCP> <382@manta.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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In article <382@manta.UUCP>, brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes:
> In article <103@cjsa.UUCP> jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) writes:
> >In article <1988Jun27.202651.9458@ziebmef.uucp>, becker@ziebmef.uucp writes:

[ much stuff about inittab enteries, etc ....]

> This puts a uugetty on the phone line waiting for an incoming
> connection.  I believe the getty initializes the port to answer
> incoming calls.  You may need to replace /usr/lib/uucp/uugetty above
> with /etc/getty.  Without a getty, your machine won't answer.

Not quite true, uugetty is supposed to be intelligent :-) in that it
will answer incomming calls as well as allow out going calls on the
same port without need of inittab modfication.

Mike Moran 
Contracted to AT&T-BL			UUCP:  att!cbosgd!mhm
Columbus, Ohio				       mhm@cbosgd.att.com