inittab entries

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

Without a program 'hanging onto' a port the settings are pretty
much useless, at least in V7 and 4BSD.  A tty that is not attached
to a process gets reset when you open it to a (probably site-dependent)
default.  The only way to get it to go some way and stay that way is
to open it and hold onto it, then set the modes.

A "standard trick" is to use

	sleep 1000000 > /dev/ttyXX &

before setting things up.  (Then you have to go kill the sleep later,
usually.)
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