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From: gillisb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Brian Gillis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Writing serial device drivers
Keywords: serial ttys printers
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Date: 2 Aug 89 06:44:54 GMT
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Hello Net-Fans,
I am faced with dealing with a serial device, acting as a printer,
that does not have the ability to send Xon/Xoff control to control
data flow.  A possible, and accomplished method, was to write a little
C program to control the speed in which data is sent to the device that
was not dependent on baud rate or device quirks.

The problem:
Various programs bypass the system spooler and write  directly to 
the serial port.  Therefore, I am faced with the problem of getting 
between the serial port and the various application programs. I can
define where to write, such as any /dev/*.

I am not sure if I must write a device driver, but I am not sure on
any other way to get around this problem.

If anyone has any useful ideas or code, please drop me a e-mail note!

Thank you,
Brian Gillis
gillisb@gsd.UUCP
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