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From: gandrews@netcom.COM (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Help Please with Telebit and SCO RTS/CTS Setup.
Summary: It's not *half duplex* RTS/CTS - inportant detail
Keywords: RTS/CTS Hardware Flow Telebit RS-232 Unix 386 SCO
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.221823.14677@netcom.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 22:18:23 GMT
References: <5176@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM> <1991Apr04.000414.5144@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <1991Apr04.000414.5144@cmllab.rgb.sub.org> macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod) writes:
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>I just had the same problem. It's just as the guy at Telebit said:
>using the hardware handshake only in half duplex mode is ok for 99%
>of all the data transmission. 
>

Technically, it's not half-duplex RTS/CTS flow control.  Half duplex 
RTS/CTS flow control uses a very different interaction between the RTS
and CTS signals.

It's actually full duplex RTS/CTS flow control that is only being
used in one direction.


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