Subject: Re: Calling units (was: problem with 3/7 sources)
To: Theo Deraadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 03/15/1994 20:42:40
> Simple comment about uugetty:
>
> over my dead body.
I take this as a vote _for_ cua* ? :-)
I've used both. For quite a while I hacked each NetBSD version to
use a com.c that included the COM_BIDIR patches and never had a
complaint...
Recently though I wanted to make sure I was running as close to vanila
NetBSD as possible. So I _had_ to use uugetty. Actually I'm using a
rather modified mgetty (of mgetty+sendfax fame). I'm quite happy with
it too - plus if my modem worked properly, it could handle receiving
faxes for me.
The only hacks in my kernel at present are
LP_SIMPLE_PROBE to ensure my printers are found
that horrible kludge I did to avoid updating LED's in my pccons (next
update will take care of that :-)
and a fix for com.c not re-asserting DTR when setting baud rate to
non-zero. So toggling DTR now actually works.
I personally always liked the call out units, but I have nothing
against a properly working uugetty, and for me mgetty does well
enough.
--sjg
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