Hayes modem auto-bauding

[Gary S. Trujillo]

In <1990Oct19.233911.14507 at fithp.uucp> mhw at fithp.uucp (Marc Weinstein) writes:

> Does your statement above imply that a) system A calls my system, b) system
> A's modem looks for 1200 baud connect, my uugetty is set to 2400 baud, but
> system A is able to get my modem to connect when the proper tone is sent,
> c) my uugetty recognizes that the connection was made at 1200 baud and
> it adjusts accordingly?  I assume this scenario requires that the modem
> can auto-baud using various tones.

Yes, yes, yes (and yes).  I think most modems are capable of dealing with
various speed connections.  The getty merely reads the speed of the con-
nection and sets the port speed accordingly.  Actually, in this implemen-
tation, now that I've looked at the code a bit more closely, the new getty
(a uugetty, actually) invokes /etc/getty with an appropriate argument to
indicate the speed it should set the port to.

No, the getty I am referring to is not the one that was posted to comp.
sources.misc recently - I have not attempted to get it working, but I know
one UNIXpc'er who spent several hours trying (he's using vanilla UUCP), but
didn't succeed in getting it to work.

As for distribution, it's a bit sticky, since the author wants me to keep
track of who it gets sent to, in order that an improved version can be sent
later.  Extenuating circumstances make said author unable to do so directly.
If there are enough inquiries, made to me, I'll see if other arrangements for
distribution can be made.  I'm not sure I'm up for the bookkeeping of keeping
track of things right now.

-- 
    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst