Help! uucp/tip doesn't drop the line upon termination

[Bob Weissman]

In article <3790 at brchh104.bnr.ca> devil at techunix.technion.ac.il (Gil Tene) writes:
>The fix is simple: edit /etc/ttytab so that the modem line tty has
>"remote" instead of "local", then there won't be a soft carrier, and all
>should work fine. This depends, of course, on proper hardware handshake
>lines and such, but since it worked before, it should work with this
>fix...

FYI, "remote" is not a recognized flag in ttytab.  The only flags which
are recognized by the getttyent(3) routine are
	on
	off
	secure
	local
	window=

The absence of "local" is enough to do what you want.

Adding "remote" (or any other non-flag word) will cause getttyent(3) to
think it has seen the beginning of a comment and it will therefore
cease processing the ttytab entry.  So this will only work properly if
"remote" is the last "flag" on the line.

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Bob Weissman
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