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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Hardware flow control
Date: 8 Dec 1995 15:23:50 GMT
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In article <4a7ond$cf9@ddi2.digital.net>, <rripley@digital.net> wrote:
: I'm using C-Kermit on a Silicon Graphics Indigo2. Does anyone know how to
: get hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) turned on? Kermit won't let me set it
: and the man page just says that RTS/CTS can be selected if the computer and
: its operating system support it (and mine does). But there is no SET FLOW
: RTS/CTS option in my Kermit. I have to get this working ASAP and don't have
: time to order the official documentation, but if anyone has the docs on
: C-Kermit, I believe the answer is in chapter 8 if you could look it up for
: me. Much thanks.
:
What version of IRIX do you have? What version of Kermit? The current
version of C-Kermit is 5A(190).
In any case, it appears that the IRIX versions do not presently have
hardware flow control compiled in. If you want to try adding it, you need
to be able to recompile the program from source code. Begin by reading
the section "Hardware Flow Control" in the UNIX C-Kermit Installation
Instructions file (ckuins.doc). I don't seem to have access to any SGI
systems any more so I can't do this myself.
By the way, according to the aforementioned file, IRIX does not provide an
API for turning RTS/CTS on and off, so the way to get it is by using a
special driver -- that is, a special serial device name. Unfortunately, I
don't know what the special device name would be.
Send email directly to me with the results. I'll be glad to help, and once
we get it working, we'll incorporate it into the next release and/or release
notes.
- Frank