Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ccicpg!arnold!dave From: dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: 3B1 vs. 7300, uucp/mail Fight, Round One Message-ID: <188@arnold.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 15:38:32 GMT References: <9377@cup.portal.com> Organization: Home, Mission Viejo, Ca Lines: 31 In article <9377@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com writes: > [...] > I attempted this and, a DLM (data line monitor) on the serial > port, discovered that each system's login herald > would be interpreted as a > login attempt by the other > system with the result being each system would > "fight" the other. I know one thing: You have to be running a getty on both systems that wake up, and give the login prompt only until DCD is asserted. uugetty does this but isn't really widely available... But... There was a bidirectional getty front-end posted to comp.sources.unix several years ago. Besides all this, there are still some things to watch out for, and don't know the details. I remember a big discussion about this last year in comp.sys.att, or unix-pc.general. randy@chinet was very involved. I would really like to bring this one back, I found it very interesting at the time, but was to busy to read the discussions. I have some time now! Did anybody save this discussion? The subject was "uugetty's fighting" or some such thing. -- Dave Arnold dave@arnold.UUCP {cci632|uunet}!ccicpg!arnold!dave