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Re: Getty/GPFax/BBS?

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From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:52
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In article <ragnaroek1995Nov16.011329.12457@news2.compulink.com> jhoward@cml.com (Jeff Howard) writes:
> So I thought: I'll set up a line that let's folks either send a fax or
> dial up a private bbs...UUCP, faxgetty, GPFax and Trinity 2.0 (I'm an
> animator and video editor, *not* a programmer, but I wade through the
> manuals and try to get things working on my own.
>
> Anyway: the fax is automatically detected and works.	The data caller
> gets sent a bunch of garble and the logfile says "(date-time) Getty,-,
> Set Params Error 1 "
>
> The Trinity manual says that the way to get a node to work with UUCP is
> to run TrinityBBS -sSerial.device -u0 -b<baud rate>. -s = serial device
> used -u = unit number -b = baud rate.
>
> My getty password entry is "guest,*,2,2,(Guest_login),Trinity:,s:bbs_startup
>
> Any thoughts as to what bonehead move I've made, or how one gets this
> happening?  My un-educated opinion is that, although, Trinity is
> *supposed* to have an ARexx port name, it doesn't show up (I have all the
> required libs), so I can't send the proper baud rate result to it.

guest,*,2,2,(Guest_login),Trinity:,*s:bbs_startup

would be my first guess.

What version of getty?
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  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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