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- From: "G. Dragon" <Vadim@infsviaz.msk.su>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help: need to debug a modem problem.
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:48:59 +0300
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- phabm@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Araya Pamonprawat - PHST) wrote:
- >I think Xon-Xoff is hardware-flow-control.
-
- As far as I know, XON/XOFF is software flow control i. e.
- when the buffer is full, the device/program issues a XOFF byte.
- That byte tells the opposite site to suspend data
- transmission until a XON byte is received. That's not very
- convenient, because some special precautions should be done
- when transmitting binary files (since this sort of data may contain
- any bytes including the ones which stand for XON and XOFF). I don't
- know for sure how XON/XOFF flow control handles such situations,
- but any solution is based on inserting special bits or bytes into
- the transmitted data.
- On the other hand, RTS/CTS flow control is based on using
- hardware (a pair of control pins of serial interface). This
- allows to transmit the user's data without inserting additional
- bits or bytes and that's why I prefer RTS/CTS.
- But there are still some situations, when you can't do much
- without XON/XOFF. First, if hardware can't handle control pins
- properly; Second, when you use short range modems (they are usually
- as dumb as old-fashioned terminals).
- Regards, G. Dragon
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