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- From: Mark.Milhollan@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Hardware vs xon/xoff flo
- X-Sender: newtout 0.01 Jul 13 1992
- Message-ID: <n06fdt@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 08:12:00
- Lines: 46
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- You wrote:
-
- > I know that the the RS232 'standard' is not really a standard (in the
- > sense of having all details fully specified),
-
- It was _VERY_ complete -- but nobody wants a half-duplex protocol. Revisions
- to allow full-duplex were not universally acceptable when they were first
- introduced, so some confusion ensued.
-
-
- > how off-the-wall is use of hardware flow control?
-
- Compared to the original RS (recomended standard)? Quite.
-
- Viewed on it's own? Not too wierd. Drop RTS when you are not willing to
- accept characters; do not send characters when CTS is low.
-
- Do all modems support this? Generally all _modern_ modems do -- but the
- default configuration is often such that they are disabled, i.e. DSR, RLSD
- and CTS are always true, DTR and RTS are ignored.
-
-
- > We need to be able to operate to 115 Kbaud and transfer binary data. Does
- > anyone know whether packages that operate at this speed and do binary
- > transfer use hardware flow control?
-
- Usually.
-
-
- > Do any packages use xon/xoff to do this?
-
- None that I know of. Turnkey (usually Kermit based) solutions might.
- (Escaping the two characters (binary transfer right?) is overhead.)
-
-
- > The statement has been made that many communication packages commonly
- > used on the PC have no provision for dealing with hardware flow control.
- > How true is this?
-
- NOT! Most packages support hardware flow control. (Krap doesn't -- be
- careful, much Krap is Pretty.) Some packages have it disabled initially
- (why? dunno.) so check.
-
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