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- From: dougs@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: RS232 -- HW vs SW flow control
- Keywords: xon xoff cts rts flow control
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.161821.431@tvnews.tv.tek.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:18:21 GMT
- Sender: dougs@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton, OR
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- We're having a disagreement about how 'standard' use of hardware flow control
- (that is, RTS-CTS signalling) is for serial communications. I know that the
- the RS232 'standard' is not really a standard (in the sense of having all
- details fully specified), but how off-the-wall is use of hardware flow control?
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- We need to be able to operate to 115 Kbaud and transfer binary data.
- Do any packages use xon/xoff to do this?
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- The statement has been made that many communication packages commonly used
- have no provision for dealing with hardware flow control. How true is
- this?
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- Thanks for any facts you can give me.
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