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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic PPP-detecting getty and pppd!!!
To: Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com (Duncan Barclay)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 06:48:19 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <31CAC0F2@SMTPGATE.PA-CONSULTING.COM> from "Duncan Barclay" at Jun 21, 96 08:25:00 am
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> This is great, but... :-)
> I had a look in ports when this first came up a week or so back and saw
> that there were getty+fax versions of getty (I cant remember the packages)
> so how about it then, getty+ppp+fax. The ideal combination for
> a person with an extra phone line, a fax modem, a bunch of friends who want
> to ppp in, a laptop with terminal software in (but cant have FreeBSD because
> it's his works) and a wife who will only let him use this if she gets a fax 
> machine...
> 
> I wonder who that could be:-)
> 
> So how about it Joe?

It's a 20-line (mostly a FSM) code change to getty, not hard.  When I
prepare a patch, feel free to snarf the code  :-)

... JG