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- From: ronald@gate.demon.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Date: 19 Jul 92 20:55 MDT
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix 3.2v4, RTSFLOW, CTSFLO
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- chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) wrote:
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- > Does anyone out there understand:
- >
- > 1. What RTSFLOW and CTSFLOW do, singly and in combination,
- > under (A) 3.2v2 and (B) 3.2v4?
-
- Supposedly no change. They are intended for true half-duplex modem-style
- line-control, i.e. the REAL meaning of RTS/CTS. I think it's possible
- to use CTSFLOW only for printer flow control, but don't hold me to that :-)
-
- Some vendors, e.g. Specialix, specifically interpret the flags as being
- for full duplex flow control, not line control, since that's essentially
- useless for the kind of applications which their markets want, and
- CRTSFL was not available prior to 3.2v4
-
- > 2. What CRTSFL does, compared to 1(A) and 1(B)?
-
- CRTSFL is new with 3.2v4 and does mean full duplex flow control,
- what EIA-232 calls RFR/CTS flow control. RFR "Ready for receive" is
- actually a different circuit number according to the spec, but is
- the same pin on a V.24 25-way D connector.
-
- Confused ? You will be.
-
- The problem is that if you use a current Specialix card on a 3.2v4 system,
- and want RFR/CTS flow control, you still have to use the wrong flags,
- ie CTSFLOW|RTSFLOW rather than CRTSFL because the drivers were written
- for 3.2v2. Hence I had to ask Morning Star Technologies who supply
- PPP for this site to give me two different option flags so that
- if the line is the standard /dev/tty1A I use CRTSFL to get the flow control
- I want, but if I'm in via the Specialix multiport then I use CTSFLOW|RTSFLOW.
-
- If you want full duplex flow control on /dev/tty1A, you have to either
- upgrade to 3.2v4 or else install FAS (which uses minor numbers rather
- than termio flags to indicate flow control).
-
- Unravelling this has taken a lot of effort, but at the end of the day
- we have a service running with flow control working correctly on a rackfull
- of modems on different ports. case "`tty`" in foo) ;; bar) ;; esac
- rules OK :-(
-
- Ugh. You are in a twisty maze of termio flags, all different.
-
-
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