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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DTR and serial.device
Keywords: serial, RS232, modem
Message-ID: <460@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 12:24:08 GMT
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Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
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That'd be fine by me Marco, but maybe Bryce isn't aware of the existence
of some weird pieces of equipment  out there which uses DTR as a control
line which must be diddled while other things are happened on the serial
port.

One kind of laser disk controller comes to mind....

Bryce....that approach (DTR  is  managed  by the open/close state of the
serial device) is completely fine for the general case...but...we should
have the (standard) ability to diddle the control lines for the patholo-
gical case of some particular types of hardware.

What do you say?

Perry


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