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by **E.Kalvelag** » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00

This must be an easy question.

I just installed a Digiboard 8em in a SCO box, and hooked up a few
modems. Dialing in works fine, but to cycle through the different
baud rates in my gettydefs file by sending BREAK is not what I want.
The man pages say something about an auto-baudrate option to
uugetty but a) the system admin guide does not mention this and
b) in my inittab I see calls to /etc/getty. I'd like to have some
auto baudrate option as users will dial in with an application
program that does not know how many BREAKS to send to achieve the
correct speed. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Cheers, Erwin

by **Jean-Pierre Radle** » Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Quote:E.Kalvelagen writes:
> I just installed a Digiboard 8em in a SCO box, and hooked up a few
> modems. Dialing in works fine, but to cycle through the different
> baud rates in my gettydefs file by sending BREAK is not what I want.
> The man pages say something about an auto-baudrate option to
> uugetty but a) the system admin guide does not mention this and
> b) in my inittab I see calls to /etc/getty. I'd like to have some
> auto baudrate option as users will dial in with an application
> program that does not know how many BREAKS to send to achieve the
> correct speed. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

What you really want with today's modems is not to cycle at all.
Pick a high-speed gettydef, such as 19200 or 38400, and let the
modem, using its internal buffers and hardware flow control,
arbitrate the difference between its speed over the telephone
line and its speed over the RS-232 connection.

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