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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Re: bin/1019
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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
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