Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: RS232 to modem connection
Message-ID: <1989Sep19.154905.2028@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <894.25151214@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 89 15:49:05 GMT

In article <894.25151214@zswamp.fidonet.org> Geoffrey.Welsh@p0.f171.n221.z1.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>... Let's not forget that the specified DSR/DTR handshake has also been 
>overriden by the use of DTR as a hook control on most modems.

Uh, hook control is precisely what DTR is for.  DSR and DTR weren't meant
for data handshaking either, the attractive-sounding names notwithstanding;
they are for connection handshaking, so to speak.  See the standards, or
the McNamara book, for details.
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