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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Do SPARCstations *really* support RTS/CTS flow control?
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:55:32 GMT
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- >OK, I want to use RTS/CTS flow control.
-
- (Presumably meaning the type where RTS is raised by the Sun if it wants
- to send stuff, and CTS is controlled by the modem, so you can control
- the flow of data from the Sun, but not the flow of data to it....)
-
- >I recently set up uucp on our system. In the uucp documentation, it
- >shows how to enable CRTSCTS in the Systems or Dialers file for outgoing
- >calls, but how do I enable it for incoming uucp connections?
-
- Well, if it's good enough to enable it for *all* incoming dial-in
- connections - dial-in UUCP connections are just ordinary dial-in
- connections, generally, with the remote machine logging into a UUCP
- account - then set up an entry in "/etc/gettytab" that enables RTS/CTS
- flow control (by putting "crtscts" in the "ms", or in the appropriate
- "m0", "m1", and "m2" fields), and have the entry in "/etc/ttytab" for
- the dial-in port use that "gettytab" entry.
-
- (There may be a way to get UUCP to turn it on for incoming dial-in
- connections, rather than doing it in "getty", but I'm too lazy to check
- the source any further, if it's not documented....)
-