> Personally, I never understood the concept of "dial-in" and "call-out" > devices on FreeBSD. I ran BBS software for years on both Apple II > hardware and PC hardware; there was no distinction between such devices. > A serial port is a serial port. Chances are I'm not understanding why > there's a distinction, but there doesn't appear to be any explanation of > why there's a distinction within manpages or the handbook...
The distinction exists to allow an application to wait on the "dial-in" port for incoming calls and another application to make outgoing call mean time using the same port as "call-out" while the port is idle. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"