1 Introduction

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• man pages for: getty(1m), gettydefs(4), init(1), login(1), setserial(8)
• Your modem manual
• UUCP HOWTO: for information on setting up UUCP
• Printing HOWTO: deals with setting up a serial printer
• NET-2 HOWTO: all about networking, including SLIP and PPP
• Term HOWTO: everything you wanted to know about the term program
• USENET newsgroups:

  comp.os.linux.admin             Installing and administering Linux systems.
  comp.os.linux.announce          Announcements important to the Linux community. 
                                  (Moderated)
  comp.os.linux.development       Ongoing work on the Linux operating system.
  comp.os.linux.help              Questions and advice about Linux.
  comp.os.linux.misc              Linux topics not covered by other groups.
  

• the Linux SERIAL channel mailing list. To join, send email to
  linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi with ``X-Mn-Admin: join SERIAL'' in the message body or header. If you send ``X-Mn-Admin: help'' you get a help message.

Please send me any questions, comments, suggestions, or additional material. I'm always eager to hear about what you think about the HOWTO. I'm also always on the lookout for improvements! Tell me exactly what you don't understand, or what could be clearer. You can reach me at gregh@cc.gatech.edu via email. I can also be reached at:

Greg Hankins
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280

Your milage may vary. The answers given may not work for all systems and all setup combinations.