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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Morris wrote:
> On 04/06/2009 08:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > You need the server machine to be listening via a getty type of
> > program configured in inittab, so that you get a terminal with login
> > and bash prompt. Then you can execute "sz" on the remote server, and
> > catch it on the local side running minicom.
> >
> > That's it :-)
> >
> >
> > I think there is/was a trick to configure things in inittab so that
> > when you dialed in, you'd get a prompt or a ppp prompt depending on
> > what the client did. That would be wonderfull for your situation.
> >
> > I have been on the client side of such a setup, I don't know how
> > exactly to configure the server side.
> You would need to configure the mgetty program.  It allows a ppp
> dial-in, and isn't that hard to setup.  HTH.

Joe,

        I have had ppp working for a couple of years, then the install of 
Avantfax
altered a couple of hylafax files (probably the config for the gettyargs) and
it killed ppp, so I was sort of stuck. I'm still working on backing out the
avantfax issue and finding out what exactly killed ppp, but in the interim, I
was trying to work on it from a remote location over a dialup serial link with
no ppp. The dialin minicom -> to whatever the heck answered on the server game
me my normal bash login over the serial connection, but no way to initial a
remote file transfer from the server I was dialed into back to where I was.

        You are correct, ppp solves all the issues I was faced with ... no, 
just how
to get it back. More work for tonight. I'll pass along the solution to the ppp
problem once I decipher it. Thanks.

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