Re: Serial Line Settings

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From: Don Faulkner
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1989 22:28

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In article <59@gaia.oz> munnari!gaia.oz.au!drm@uunet.uu.net (David Moline) writes:
Dave> Is it possible to alter the settings on the Sun's serial ports (ttya &
Dave> ttyb) so that they default to 8 bits no parity rather than 7 bits even
Dave> parity.

WNL> How about setting that in /etc/gettytab?  Can't you just create another
WNL> getty type entry that uses the "p8" capability, then use that getty type
WNL> on the line?...--wnl

yup - you can set the flag, and getty will proceede accordingly.  you type
your login, "/bin/login" runs, and ... guess what ... looks to me like
"/bin/login" sets back to 7/odd ... (Sun 4/260 SunOS 4.0.1)

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