A couple of facts about (HDB) uucp...

[David B. Thomas]

afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:

>Has anybody noticed...

>that when uucico is running the console beep (^G) becomes very loud and
>distorted?

It's not just uucico.  It also happens if someone is logged in to the port.
I suspect it happens if the port is opened at all.

In fact, I've taken to hitting backspace at the ksh prompt (viraw mode)
to deliberately cause a beep and see if anyone's on!

						little david
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