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From: geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Modems on the RS6000
Message-ID: <1991Feb05.201513.20048@edm.uucp>
Date: 5 Feb 91 20:15:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.231456.22237@edm.uucp> <1513@msa3b.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc
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In article <1513@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) writes:
>
>
>>	Does anyone out there have modems working succesfully on an RS/6000
>>using CTS/RTS flow control. 

	As of today we have since we just received a patch from IBM.
Their number on it is 0x979.

>
>We have 32 Hayes modems working with RTS/CTS. We have had several problems,
>but none were related to flow control.  In addition to getty's definitions,
>we "stty add rts" in /etc/profile for all the modem lines.  These modems are

I believe this command is part of the above mentioned patch.
You now need to add the lines to have rts/cts in a file called
/etc/tty/addrts.list in order for the lines to use rts/cts. 

It only took IBM 2 weeks to agree that this didn't work.

>configured at 19200 baud.
>-- 
>Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347
>{emory,gatech}!nanovx!msa3b!kevin
>
>Look closely at the return address.  It is nanovx and NOT nanovAx.


Geoff Coleman

"Of course these are my own opinions"