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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: hardware flow control (repost)
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Date: 26 Oct 90 18:32:50 GMT
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In article <540@rome.gdwb.oz.au> was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes) writes:
>This is a repost.  I am trying to get a MNP type modem working on
>a MIPS box running RISC/os.  This requires hardware flow control
>to be set on the MIPS port.  The only flag I could see worth
>setting was the -CLOCAL to set modem control.  This did not seem
>to give me CTS/RTS flow control.  Can anyone help?

Hardware flow control (rts/cts) is available on some ports on some systems,
from release 4.50 on (and release 4.02 for M/1000, M/120 and M/2000 systems).
Check the appropriate release notes for availability of this capability, and
use "stty rtscts".
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