> > 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.
And once there is a incoming call block out going calls until
the incoming call completes.
>
> Eugene Grosbein
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