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From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: EPORTS Hardware Hand Shaking
Message-ID: <1519@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 20:21:49 GMT
References: <5258.27A7B3ED@onebdos.oneb.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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Robb.Thomas@f1.n684.z89.oneb.onebdos.UUCP (Robb Thomas) writes:


>Howdy,
>   I am trying to figure out a way to make my the EPORTS card in my 3B2/400
>(running System V Release 3.2) do hardware handshaking.  It is a very easy
>matter to make the EPORTS card use HARDWARE in a sh/ksh environment by
>using the "epstty hfc" command.

>   But in a UUCP environment, with uucico as the shell program, you don't run
>any shell scripts, and the /etc/gettydefs doesn't have any provisions for
>hardware flow control...  (unless I am missing something?)

I wrote a C program to set harware flow control and exec uucico (uucico.hfc).
I set up uucp's login shell to be uucico.hfc.  Now when uucp logs in, 
uucico.hfc sets HFC and execs uucico.  Viola.
-- 
Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347
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