Oops, i meant to cc: this to the list..


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:18:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Ronny Svedman <ronny@Zeke.Update.UU.SE>
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: Serial lines & terminals & getty. PLEASE help me out!

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:49:03AM +0100, Ronny Svedman wrote:
> > The manpage for gettytab & getty & /etc/ttys is IMPOSSIBLE.
> 
> Of course. You need to know what and how you connect to the hardware to write
> one.

Yikes.

I want the vt320 to have 9600, no parity, eight bit, xon/xoff, ignore
carrier/dsr/dtr/rts/cts/cd/whatever. 

the tektronix needs 7 bit, no paity, 2400bps.

I have given up on trying to understand the not-human-readable termcap an
d gettytab fileformat. there should REALLY be a frontend for making these
adjustments. I can live with editing textfiles for configuring stuff, but
this is where i draw the line. This matter had gotten me annoyed,
irritated, aggravated, frustrated and upset, to mantion a few vain
attempts at expressing my feelings. Argh!

I



> 
> uhm, sounds like a handshake problem. Try to add "softcar" and "local" to 
> the flags on the ttyS1 line in /etc/ttys.

Been there, done that, got the tshirt. no success. actually no effect
whatsoever. i tried both sighup:ing the init process, ad rebooting (even
coldbooted). nil.

What really ticks me off is that the things work in kermit, where i can
turn off carrier detect, rts/cts and dsr/dtr, and voila: it works.

*sigh*


I hope you excuse me for the somewhat aggressive tone in these mails. it
is not intended to be taken personally by anyone person, I just feel i
need to express what i  am going through. And the getty stuff IS
mumbo-jumbo, compared to what other things i have seen so far, it feels to
me as a dark and obvious  contrast to the otherwise Well-explained, richly
exampllified man pages in this Distribution.

/Ronny, in deep despair.

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