Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!amix!ford From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Serial port, hardware handshaking not availible ?!? Message-ID: <1461@amix.commodore.com> Date: 21 Mar 91 07:35:45 GMT References: Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development Lines: 25 rcstack@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Studenten Vereniging Stack) writes: > if the printer receives an XOFF in software handshake mode, it stops receiving > data until it receives an XON. While sending a bitmap in fast mode, everytime > a ctrl-s is in the data (once every 256 bytes average) the data is lost until > the next XON character. This sounds like you have a totally braindamaged printer. Obviously, you can not send binary data to any device which works as you describe, no matter how the sending device is configured. > I know the amiga can do hardware handshaking (at least my old 500 can). > > BUT HOW DO I DO IT ON AMIGA UNIX! CTS/RTS handshaking is always enabled for the builtin serial port. If you have XON/XOFF enabled, it will use that in addition, but the CTS line is always treated as hardware flow control. -=] Ford [=- "Like a pizza in the rain, (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) no one wants to take you home." ford@amix.commodore.com - David Byrne, "Loco de Amor" uunet!cbmvax!ditto ford@kenobi.commodore.com