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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:22:51 +0200
From:      "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>
To:        "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch
Message-ID:  <037d01c46a55$b034a0e0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
References:  <20040714024623.GB623@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040714180816.GA5503@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <02c201c469f4$5a45b130$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <200407142050.24677.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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"John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 06:46 pm, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > cua* are supposed to be the line to talk to a modem w/ modem control
> > (CD, etc.) while tty* are not supposed to talk to a modem and doesn't
> > have modem control.
>
> That's backwards.  tty* will hang on open() until CD, while cua* will not.  I
> use cu with /dev/cua* a lot to do manual modem commands to dial into boxes.
> However, /dev/tt* is used in /etc/ttys on the boxes I dial into to run a
> getty on the receiving modem.


thanks for the precision, forgot about that, but the idea was here :)
as told before, I didn't use my modem since 3 years now...

Cyrille Lefevre.
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