Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!bryce
From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DTR and serial.device - What about standardization?
Message-ID: <5882@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 22:19:47 GMT
References: <11543@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 18

In article <11543@gryphon.COM> rickf@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Flower) writes:
|I'm currently relying on the fact that I CAN lower/raise the DTR line via the
|CIA that is connected to the Serial port that is standard in the
|500/1000/2000.. Is there a "Better" way to do the same thing that doesn't
|rely on the CIA or which port you might be using...??

Close the device, then reopen it.  (include error checking!)
This will drop then raise DTR.
Eventually there will be a better way... but this one works for all versions
of the serial.device back to V1.0!!
It will also work for extended units.

-- 
|\_/|  . ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH!
{O o} .     Bryce Nesbitt
 (")        BIX: bnesbitt
  U	    USENET: cbmvax!bryce@uunet.uu.NET -or- rutgers!cbmvax!bryce
Disclaimer: I'm not an official, and this is not an official opinion.