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- From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: UUGETTY & Lock files...
- Message-ID: <C0G2nD.Cxt@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:14:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.061828.27179@exucom.com>
- Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.
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- In article <1993Jan3.061828.27179@exucom.com> kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling) writes:
- >
- > Where do I obtain a version of uugetty which functions, or at
- >least has the documentation? Here are the problems I am experiencing:
-
- > o No documentation about /etc/default/uugetty.ttys[1-9] Nice
- > script, pretty good idea, but lacks information on how to go
- > about it. You need this stuff when you're dealing with a
- > modem that has the ROM's in it programmed by a manufacturer
- > who hires programmers that program in "DWIM - Do What I Mean"
-
- I have getty manpages that *DO* go through all the options of the default
- files, including a description of the send/expect format for chat strings.
-
- They are included in all the versions of the gettyps archive that I have
- uploaded.
-
- > o Why does the manual page for uugetty say that there is a -r
- > option when uugetty says that it not an option?
-
- Bug. (In the *original* author's code, I might add)
- I fixed it in the latest version, but the fix is trivial: add the two
- characters 'r:' into the getopt() argument in main.c's main() routine.
-
-
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- Steve Robbins -- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
- All generalizations are false.
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