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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: DTR response time?
Message-ID: <5200@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 17:35:35 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.5200
Posted: Thu Nov  5 17:35:35 1987
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References: <350@minya.UUCP>
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <350@minya.UUCP> by jc@minya (John Chambers):
+---------------
| Anyhow, the puzzle is this:  Is there a way to control this behavior
| of the driver and/or serial board in a reasonably generic Sys/V?  Can
| I set the above value of N?  I seem to remember some vague rumor that
| this can be done somehow, but I just can't find anything about it in
| the kwic index.  Neither can grep.  Maybe I just don't know the right
| words to look up.  Maybe it isn't documented.  Maybe I can't get there
| from here.  
+---------------

I suspect the only manual that would help you is a hardware manual; many
"smart" serial boards for computers do their own buffering and may insist
on transmitting the remaining contents of the buffer upon receipt of a stop
signal (be it ^S or DTR).
-- 
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