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- From: dwong@sgi.com (David Wong)
- Subject: Re: Controlling DTR
- Message-ID: <to340gg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <34741@adm.brl.mil> <to01j18@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 04:24:32 GMT
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- In article <to01j18@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <34741@adm.brl.mil> bclark@ctron.com (Bret Clark) writes:
- >
- >| I am posting this for someone. The person is writing
- >| code using C and needs to control the DTR signal on
- >| the serial port of an IRIS Indigo. They have been unable to
- >| find reference to it in the man or documentation.
- >
- >Basicly, you can't.
- >--
- >Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- >because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- > Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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- there is a tricky way to do this. use ioctl to set to B0 to deassert DTR
- and then set it back to your regular baud rate to assert DTR.
-