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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: serial line again
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Date: 25 Apr 91 19:53:00 GMT
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In article <uh311ae.672564381@sunmanager>, uh311ae@sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges) writes:
> Hello !
> I just wonder why there is a need for hardware handshakers (ttyf's).
> I have no problem running the standard 4DGifts kermit at 19200.


Many protocols work well enough without hardware handshaking because
they do their own windowing (which reduces the likelihood of overruns)
and error recovery (which fixes the overruns that do happen).  Still
hardware flowcontrol is A Good Thing.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com