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From: phil@cs.wwu.EDU (Phil Nelson)
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Subject: uucp and the tty driver.
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Date: 14 Jun 91 21:36:39 GMT
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>I use Karl's (?) uucp port but have not tried dialing out.  The original
>comments state that dialouts would not work because of missing hooks
>in the tty driver.

What hooks are needed?  I'll add them if I can.  I've been considering
adding the following to the tty driver.

  1) Sending a break by setting Baud to 0.  (Should have been there in
     the first place.)

  2) Sending a SIGHUP on loss of DTR (or what ever the right control
     signal is.)

  3) Some way to detect an incomming break from a user program.  I could
     take the time to look it up, but I thought I'd just ask "how does
     UNIX do this?" and see if any one already knows.

  4) "Software" control of hardware handshaking by flags in the tty
     minor device number.

Any thing else I should add?

-Phil