According to Technolord:
>
>I will certainly check it out. But, I had my modem up and running,
>connectin cleanly without even opening the ttys file. I guess it's for
>incoming packets and not dialout?
>

Normally, ttys has the serial ports set up to use modem control lines.
Some people edit ttys to disable this behaviour so they can open the
serial line without CD being asserted.

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