Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 19:08 PDT From: steve@work.bellingham.wa.us To: terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: gert@greenie.muc.de, timb@thud.cdrom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, neko@greenie.muc.de, knarf@nasim.cube.net, mgetty@muc.de Subject: Re: Discussion about mgetty... Message-ID: <m0s3wX6-0000TsC@work.bellingham.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <9504260048.AA03107@cs.weber.edu> (terry@cs.weber.edu)
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
Terry> [...] thereby
Terry> precluding use of the port for bidirectional (both incoming
Terry> and outbound) use.
What exactly aren't you listening to? I am only one of hundreds of
mgetty users who use their modems "for bidirectional (both incoming
and outbound) use" daily. If a voice call comes in and I'm not in the
office, vgetty takes a message like an answering machine -- then hangs
up and dials my pager. If a data or fax call rings, the fax is
received, or a login prompt is presented. When my UUCP system decides
to poll, it just polls -- blocking on a locked port (UUCP lock) if
something or somebody else is using the modem. When I run Netscape
from a Windows computer elsewhere in my office, diald 0.7 connects to
my ISP to bring me on line. This doesn't seem like much of a kludge
to me. It seems like an extremely flexible system, and one that to my
knowledge could only have been implemented using mgetty.
Steven Work
Renaissance Labs
+1 360 647-1833, fax too
steve@work.bellingham.wa.us
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