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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:26:05 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        <kalts@estpak.ee>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Serial break into debugger broken from 'cu' on -CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <20020311181940.X5606-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020310164640.GA21339@myhakas.estpak.ee>

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> work. The other thing I noticed was that -current cu handles speed
> switch differently, e.g.:
> stable: cu -l /dev/cuaa1 -9600 works well
> current: cu -l /dev/cuaa1 -9600 will connect to cuaa0 not
> cuaa1.. -s 9600 will work however.
> What I recall is that some time back uucp was shaken out of base
> system and cu also, cu's functionality was folded back to tip.
> Stable indeed has different tip and cu binaries, in -current there's
> hard link.

The -current cu is a crock of tip.  One of the bugs in it is that
"cu -l /dev/foo" doesn't use the default line speed for /dev/foo; it
enforces 9600.  This is bug for bug compatible with the V7 cu except
for the unusably slow speed of 9600.  For perfect brokenness, the
default speed should be 300.

Bruce


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