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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/dip - Imported sources 
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 15:06:47 -0700
From: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
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> As Steven Wallace wrote:
>> 
>> I tried this out yesterday and although compiles perfectly, it does
>> not work for me.
> 
> Can you please report all this to the author?
> 
> I'm not using dip myself, i've only made this port as kind of "public
> service" due to the demand.  I've been able to initiate a connection
> with it (after fixing all that lockfile stuff), but that's already all
> i did.
> 
That is another problem - the lockfile.  If I start it up and then
it is unsuccessfull, then there is a lockfile in /var/spool/lock
so the next time it starts up it complains and doesn't open the serial port.

Steven