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Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) wrote:

: 4. The howto says RTS/CTS can be enabled on a modem by executing
: 
:      stty crtscts < /dev/cuaN
: 
:    Actually how does it do it? It is the redirection that is 
:    confusing me the most.

This only enabled hardware handshaking on the PORT, not the modem.

:    What is the role of stty anyway? Is it associating some 

It is for setting tty parameters. It has nothing specifically to do
with *getty, and some of the parameters set will be overwritten if
you run a getty.

: 5. Is rz/sz free? how come -DREGISTERED is automatically included
:    when building the source?

Why don't you read the files included with the source? There will be
one that describes the copying conditions.

: 6. Do I need to keep the linux kernel source on the machine? I
:    needed the .h files when compiling rz/sz but I doubt the usefulness
:    of other parts of the source. Am I right?

You only need to keep the /usr/src/linux/include tree, everything else
may be deleted.

: 7. How to install the man pages that are already in plain 
:    text format as opposed to the nroff format?

They should work if you place them in the usual man/man.x directory.
Some systems have a seperate directory tree, sometimes called 'cat.n',
if you have one of those then you could copy those files into there.

: 8. Do I have to run uugetty from inittab? Running it from inittab
:    means whenever I am using Linux the modem will receive any phone
:    call into my home. I can see uugetty requires two things:

You don't have to, but that is the normal way to do it.

:    a) to be respawned when it exits.
:    b) to be started even no one is logged in.

init will do those for you.

:    I think a) can be implemented by a loop in a shell script and
:    b) can be by the nohup command. Can I run uugetty in this
:    manner?

probably.

: 9. How do I figure what character sequence is produced by a particular
:    key press?

You could try ^V<key>, bash will expand this to a reasonable interpretation
of the keystroke, this seems to work for me:

For example, Cursor up produces: ^[[A, which looks pretty right to me.

: 10. Is /usr/local/bin obsolette in FSTND? There is nothing in this
:     directory on my machine.

No, it isn't obsolete. It is there for you to put any binary programs that
you add to your system, it is for 'local binaries'.

Terry