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Re: setting up dialup connection



> Yesterday I managed to login to my Linux PC my elderly Atari ST computer
> via a null-modem cable. Next, I tried to set up a modem link, but with
> less success. What I did, basically, was to uncomment the relevant agetty
> lines in my Slackware inittab file. What happens is that on reboot,
> instead of ps showing me an agetty process waiting for a dial-up (similar
> to the unused virtual terminals and the null-modem), I see a login
> process, as if somebody had already dialed in. 

I recommend you use uugetty instead of agetty. It's much more suited to
modem dial-in.

Shay

The chance of an event happening is inversly
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doing so.    
             -Murphy