Can mgetty count rings and do something useful with it?

Roy Millar (rmill@Millstream.ednet.co.uk)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:48:32 +0100


Gert Doering writes :-

> Does xringd watch the RI line, or does it look for "RING" messages on the
> RX line?

According to the docs, it watches only the RI line and can thus coexist
with a getty on the same line. And, as I just discovered, it also seems to
successfully coexist with mgetty (see recent message).


-- 
Roy Millar,                                finger rmill@shell.ednet.co.uk or
rmill@Millstream.ednet.co.uk               access http://www.ednet.co.uk/~rmill
100044.14@CompuServe.com                   for PGP public key

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a
grievance and a ray of sunshine."       -       P.G. Wodehouse