How Does Mail Work? (Also, modems, cables, telebits, etc.)

[D Fishbein]

alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>>  Well, I don't know what the "standard" Mac apps for telecom are, but I
>>tried Zterm and it failed miserably--claimed all serial ports were busy. [...]

>Zterm works fine. you must be doing something funny. Likewise MicroPhone.
>They have worked since early betas.

I have noticed that Microphone II will fail with the above message if a getty is
running on the port that Microphone II is trying to open. Killing the getty solves the
problem.
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Donn Fishbein        ..!radar!donn