SUMMARY: Incoming modem setup

From: Kee Koon Chua (kkc@stat.nursing.arizona.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1993 - 03:46:38 CST


The original posting was:

>Happy New Year Sun managers,
> I had a US Robotics modem setup on my SPARC 2 as an incoming modem.
>Everything works fine except that it uses 7bits instead of 8bits.
>Thus when I dial in using Procomm, I have to use either E71 or O71, but
>not N81. This is not a major problem except that I have an editor that
>requires the use of 8bits.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.

It seems that everyone knows the answer except me. :-(
The solution is to add :p*: in /etc/gettytab and so my /etc/gettytab looks
like this:

  default:\
          :p8:ap:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:

Thanks to the following who responsed:

bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
kbibb@qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
dauns@peter.cs.andrews.edu (Frank Dauns)
mloewen@cpumagic.uucp
jaf@inference.com (Jose A. Fernandez)
yklee%handel.kaist.ac.kr@daiduk.kaist.ac.kr (Lee Young Koo)
trdlnk!mike@uunet.UU.NET (Michael Sullivan)
"Michael S. McLean" <msm@eng.ufl.edu>
"Ronald C. Russell" <Ronald.C.Russell@ag.auburn.edu>
root@irt.com (Jim Murff)
dowjone!jcsadmin!jc@uunet.UU.NET (John Ciesla)

Kee Chua
University of Arizona
College of Nursing



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