On 2 Dec 2004 12:17:51 -0500, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:

-|
-| Now we want to use the same cable to login to unix - I need to setup
-| the serial port to run a getty, but somehow disable the getty when
-| it's time to run communcations.
-
-Why do you weant to disable the port? I leave my serial ports enabled at
-all times, and it is never a probem to use them outbound with cu, xc,
-kermit, uucp, whatever...

Maybe I'm just not remembering it properly....
So there's no need to do anything special with either serial port manager or
Specialix config - I can just run kermit on a line with a getty running?

regards

-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com