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Where can I find the documentation/manual that comes with the
"/sbin/uugetty" command bundled in slackware 2.2 ?

TIA

Christian.

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Have a look at the man page for getty.  Getty and uugetty are essentially
the same thing - uugetty has support for uucp style lockfiles, though, so
your comms program, uugetty and uucp can all peacefully co-exist!

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I would advise you to use mgetty. The documentation of getty and related stuff
is highly inaccurate and a large number of people have never gotten the getty's
that come with Slackware to work. mgetty's documentation is excellent.

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As a musician rather than computer guru, I believe that if +I+ can figure
these things out, using uugetty on one line used for generic telecom
dialout, telecom dialin, uucp dialout, =and= uucp dialin, the documentation
can't be too bad, and the software isn't either.

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|> : Where can I find the documentation/manual that comes with the
|> : "/sbin/uugetty" command bundled in slackware 2.2 ?
|>
|> I would advise you to use mgetty. The documentation of getty and related stuff
|> is highly inaccurate and a large number of people have never gotten the getty's
|> that come with Slackware to work. mgetty's documentation is excellent.
|>
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|> Posting from the Water Fountain (818)564-8548. Come all ye are thirsty....
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You might try an ftp site like tsx-11.mit.edu in dir pub/linux/doc/HOWTO.
There's a lot of good stuff there. The docs I have are for the uugetty
packaged with kernel 1.1.59 on Infomagic CD, and were in dir /usr/doc/getty_ps.

Quote:>>I would advise you to use mgetty. The documentation of getty and related stuff
>>is highly inaccurate and a large number of people have never gotten the getty's
>>that come with Slackware to work. mgetty's documentation is excellent.
>This comment--and many others like it over months' time--mystifies me. The
>gettys known as getty_ps and uugetty are in fact adequately documented in
>both their man pages and sample files included with the distrubution.

Quote:>As a musician rather than computer guru, I believe that if +I+ can figure
>these things out, using uugetty on one line used for generic telecom
>dialout, telecom dialin, uucp dialout, =and= uucp dialin, the documentation
>can't be too bad, and the software isn't either.

Actually, I think getty_ps is a very good program, but the various people
packaging broken Linux distributions from it, and hacking together linux
specific adaptions to get it to work (humble?) with the ttyS/cua scheme
have hurt it very much.

gert
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                        getts_ps package
                        mgetty   package
                     or agetty   package ???
TIA.

Christian.

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Quote:>You might try an ftp site like tsx-11.mit.edu in dir pub/linux/doc/HOWTO.
>There's a lot of good stuff there. The docs I have are for the uugetty
>packaged with kernel 1.1.59 on Infomagic CD, and were in dir /usr/doc/getty_ps.

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