mgetty has been ported to SunOS, and seems to work quite well. If you use SunOS, please send me a brief report about your results.
Thanks to Earl Hartwig, earl@fozzi.ocunix.on.ca, for the initial port.
For compilation, please define -Dsunos4.
In policy.h, you’ve to adapt the location of the LOCK files.
In the Makefile, set ECHO='...' to
/usr/5bin/echo, because the standard one doesn’t
support escape codes like ‘\n’ or ‘\c’. Alternatively, if you
don’t have the System5 options installed, use mg.echo.
If a fax reception hangs shortly after the ‘+FCON’ is seen, please try
setting FAXREC_FLOW to Xon/Xoff (FLOW_SOFT). Hardware
handshake has problems on SunOS versions without the “Jumbo TTY” patch.
If fax sending hangs mysteriously between the first and the second page,
you’re likely to have a modem that drops DCD during pages. As SunOS’
serial drivers are dumb, reception of data will fail if DCD is low and
handshake is set to RTS/CTS. So, set ignore-carrier yes in
sendfax.config and #define FAXSEND_FLOW FLOW_SOFT
in policy.h and fax sending should work.
Please use the “outgoing” devices (/dev/cua*) for mgetty and dial-outs, using the “incoming” devices (/dev/tty*) will make dialout impossible. Further, carrier detect (DCD) is only honoured on the cua* lines.
It is very strongly recommended that you install the “jumbo tty patch” (patch number 100513-05 for 4.1.2 or .3, patch number 101621-01 for 4.1.3_u1 and up) because it will fix a lot misbehaviour of the serial line drivers.
Please read also the generic BSD section.