Modems

[Barbara La Scala]

I have just been set a task which I thought would be quite simple.  I need to
set up a dial-in modem on our brand new RS/6000 320.  Nothing fancy, all the
modem needs to do is sit there, answer the phone when it rings and get getty to
fire up the login program.  To this on my Sun workstation all I needed to do
was check the entries in the /etc/gettytab file, edit the /etc/ttytab file and
send a HUP signal to init.  It took me 10 minutes (once I had figured out what
to do :-).  However the IBM doesn't have either /etc/gettytab or /etc/ttytab or
anything that appears to be equivalent.  I am lost.  I have stumbled across
various references to BNU (Basic Networking Utilities) but all these seem to be
for a dial-out modem.  Could someone *please* tell me what part of TFM,
otherwise known as the (in)famous InfoExplorer, tells me where IBM has seen fit
to move all the tty information and how I set up a modem on a dial-in line?

I would also appreciate it if someone could explain just *why* IBM felt it
necessary to make all those endless, gratuitous changes to UNIX.  I have spent
more time and achieved less on this damn IBM box than I have on any other
system, and that includes one of the more buggy ports of UNIX to an 80386 box.

Argh!

Barbara La Scala                   Internet: bfls at cain.anu.edu.au
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