Null modems between Xenix systems.

[neal at mnopltd.UUCP]

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->robert at woodt.uucp (Robert Sexton) writes:
->
->>Has anybody successfully connected two xenix systems witha null-modem cable?
->>I have had fairly mixed results.  In all cases so far, I seem to get one-way
->>communication, depending on which system starts the conversation.  I wish
->>to use uucp for local mail and printer sharing, but my cables just don't 
->>do the trick.  I wish SCO had been a little more verbose about this problem.
->>their manuals refer me to the serial port manuals.
->>-- 
->>Robert Sexton, Woodtechnique Inc. 
->>robert at woodt.UUCP ukma!woodt!robert
->
->Unless I'm missing something in what Robert's saying, he wants to use ONE
->cable to connect two XENIX systems in a bidirectional UUCP link.  This
->cannot be done with getty.  AT&T systems have something called uugetty
->that permits this (they sort of handshake and then wait to see who wants
->to do what).  There is probably a PD version of uugetty out there somewhere.
->
->The problem with what Robert wants to do is that neither getty knows that
->it is supposed to ignore what's coming in from the other side.  So they
->are likely to both sit there saying "login:" indefinitely, greatly to the
->detriment of the performance of the rest of the processes on both systems!
->-- 
Yeah.  Should he consider dictating whom is the slave and who is master and
make the master poll very regularly (every 10 minutes?)

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