Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:57:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: muir@idiom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ache@astral.msk.su, nate@sri.MT.net, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: bin/1019 Message-ID: <199604191257.OAA06210@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604191103.NAA29564@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@freebsd.org" at Apr 19, 96 01:03:36 pm
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As sos@freebsd.org wrote: > Why can't the "intelligent" getty check for "RING" as it can check for > a PPP header ?? Since this requires to listen on a port that hasn't detected the carrier yet. This, in turn, causes another mess of other things, causing me to dislike mgetty very much. Perhaps this opinion might change if we sometimes implement ``early carrier detect'' by (optionally) using the (hardware) Ring Indicator for this as opposed to DCD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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