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From: trevc@tecate.mips.com (Trevor Cotton)
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Subject: Re: Getting status of DCE device from a DTE device
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:02:30 GMT
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In article <8283@alpha.cam.nist.gov>, coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:
|> Is there a way from inside a C program to find out if
|> DATA CARRIER DETECT is high on the Data communication devices?
|> 
|> I want my program to see if there is a modem device on the
|> other end of the cable before it tries to use that port.
|> I am trying to make sure that the port plugged into the 
|> back of my Sparc Station is hooked into something.
|> 
|> 
|> Thanks
|> 
|> Sean Coleman
|> NIST
|> coleman@bldrdoc.gov

Sun Release 4.0    Last change: 22 March 1989                  20

TERMIO(4)        DEVICES AND NETWORK INTERFACES         TERMIO(4)


     TIOCMGET       The argument is a pointer  to  an  int.   The
                    current  state  of  the modem status lines is
                    fetched and stored in the int pointed  to  by
                    the  argument.   This  call is allowed from a
                    background process.