2-way calling on voice line

[Jos Vos]

In article <210 at fantasci.UUCP> jep at fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) writes:
>Hello.  I am currently running ISC UNIX V.3 on an 80386 with a Hayes Smartmodem
>1200.  The only phone line I have at this time is my voice line.  What I would
>like to do is have my system be able to receive calls at certain times/days.
>But I also need the system to be able to call out when it has to do its polling
>for news and mail. The modem is connected to tty01.

Use uugetty (it's in /usr/lib/uucp) for that purpose. An entry in /etc/inittab
should look like

	01:234:repawn:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -r -t15 tty01 1200U

where 1200U is an entry of /etc/gettydefs. Uugetty can handle both
incoming and outcoming calls.

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