Re: chat--what terminal

1998-10-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
It doesn't. pppd redirects stdin/stdout to be the proper device before exec'ing chat. Eric wrote: > This is something I've never understood. How does chat know what terminal > to talk to? Does it assume that /dev/modem is a link to the terminal the > modem is on? What is the proper way, to, s

RE: chat--what terminal

1998-10-07 Thread Shaleh
chat talks to the port that ppp opens. You tell ppp where the modem is. On 07-Oct-98 Eric wrote: > This is something I've never understood. How does chat know what terminal > to talk to? Does it assume that /dev/modem is a link to the terminal the > modem is on? What is the proper way, to, say