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From: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Serial Port Flow Control ????
Message-ID: <1082@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 90 21:49:00 GMT
References: <8214@emcard.UUCP>
Reply-To: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <8214@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) writes:
>
>mode com1:96,n,8,1

Shouldn't this be 'mode com1:96,n,8,1,p' anyway?

>mode lpt1:=com1:
>
>or whatever and we DO get output. But of course, when the LJ goes to
>print a page, it wants the data flow to pause. The BIOS serial port
>software doesn't handle software handshaking at all. Does anyone have a TSR
>to performs the ^S/^Q handshaking transparently over the serial port?
>
If the LJ does hardware handshaking (I thought it did!), with the ,p parameter
on the mode line you won't need Xon/Xoff.  I've set up a couple of printers this
way.

>I checked simtel and there is "FLOW.ASM" but I don't have an assembler.
Try A86 Shareware Assembler.  Its not bad, but only does .COM files.

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