Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!panix!alexis From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Obnoxious load-dependant bug in UUCP Message-ID: <1991Mar17.083537.2098@panix.uucp> Date: 17 Mar 91 08:35:37 GMT References: <1991Mar11.190108.27114@intacc.uucp> <1991Mar12.125557.433@skbat.csc.ti.com> Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 29 urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Mar12.125557.433@skbat.csc.ti.com>, > dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes: >< Apple should allow HSKi/HSKo for hardware flow control and GPi for >< carrier detect. This would be the best compromise. >< >I second this wholeheartedly. > >It's a shame that there's this perfectly workable input pin there, and A/UX >doesn't use it. > >Some people need both carrier detect and hardware flow control. >I can get by without a hardware solution to get the modem to hang up, but >that doesn't work too well in the other direction... As I wrote previously, Apple doesn't even have GPi on some Macs. On the other hand, there is one solution. Digiboard makes 4 and 8 port serial boards for A/UX that support both DTR/DCD and RTS/CTS (HSKi/HSKo). They come with hydra cables that have real DB-25s at the ends! I don't know how this works yet but I'm installing one tomorrow on Panix. I'll let you know. (BTW, they also support Berkeley-style line control. So the whole issue of dialin-dialout is moot.) --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis