Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!lion!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DNET query
Message-ID: <21653@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 21:20:59 GMT
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In article <15600002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs121jj@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>run dnet -8 -X -P0 -X0 -b19200 -m0
>
>DNET looks neat, but I'm not sure how to get it to run.
>
>Any suggestions?
> (I thought the -8 would force an 8-bit connection)...

DNET opens an initial window to let you talk to the serial line until it
finds a DNET handshake, when it closes it and starts the protocol.
The -8 flag forces 8 bits (instead of 7 bits and whatever parity) on the
initial window and has nothing to do with the -m0 flag which uses 8 bits
for the protocol.

The -P and -X flags don't do anything unless you're using the default -m1
seven-bit protocol.

Assuming you're talking to a Unix machine, be sure to specify -m0 to the
Unix end as well.  Otherwise the Unix end doesn't put the terminal into
raw mode and the first funny character (^Z, ^Y, ^C/^? whichever you use)
that comes along will kill the server.  I've added a local hack to clear
all the tty structures so a noise character on the line won't ^Z my
DNET driver or something annoying.
-- 
	-Colin