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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Uploading w/o flow-control to a Unix/Xenix tty port
Message-ID: <12434@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Oct 88 19:00:58 GMT
References: <223@sea375.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <223@sea375.UUCP> dave@sea375.UUCP (David A. Wilson) writes:
| I have an application running under 4.3BSD, Xenix, Microport and Venix systems
| that uploads data from a barcode scanner to a disk file. 

  You're going to kick yourself. Stop trying to solve the problem at
the UNIX end and make the hardware honor the flow control! Go buy a
serial to serial printer buffer which accepts flow control. I had one
with a 64k buffer from Black Box, and literally threw it away because I
hadn't used it in a year. I'm sure there are other companies making
similar products.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me