Hello andrew.

08 May 05 02:34, you wrote to Scott Little:

 ac> Excellent.  I've installed the FreeBSD port of mgetty tonight (built
 ac> from source with Fido support) but have run out of time to play around
 ac> with it.  I ended up just installing it on to my main BSD machine
 ac> instead of using a separate machine for it.  Then I can basically
 ac> remove a PC from my network (yay!).   Hopefully I'll get to finish the
 ac> install some time this week... it looks simple enough.  I already have
 ac> the modem working with WinFax so I'd be surprised if it won't work
 ac> with mgetty, and I've already set up ifcico for FTS-1 over telnet so
 ac> it should be easy to get that working over dialup too, then set mgetty
 ac> to fall to a login prompt if it's not fax/fido.  My days of wanting to
 ac> run a BBS are long gone.  :-)

Play with the init strings to make it work, use mgetty here without problems 
for the BBS, don't use it for fax, so no comments in that regard, must try 
thathe fax bit sometime. Remember having to fiddle the modem init strings when 
I set it up here, now works very well here.

Russell

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