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- From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft three button mouse?
- In-Reply-To: edc@ee.ubc.ca's message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:39:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <JRS.92Nov12014446@lepton.world.std.com>
- Sender: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
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- References: <1992Nov10.164042.17579@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:44:46 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:39:27 GMT, edc@ee.ubc.ca (Ed Casas) said:
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- Ed> *** serial.c Mon Sep 28 16:42:24 1992
- Ed> --- serial.c.old Mon Sep 28 16:36:40 1992
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- Your patch is backwards. :-)
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- Ed> This was just a quick hack and might break other things, so a
- Ed> proper solution would be to write a little utility program to set
- Ed> the control lines properly, doing something like:
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- Ed> ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIS , TIOCM_DTR | TIOCM_RTS ) ;
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- Ed> I wrote such a program but it failed due to a bug in tytso's
- Ed> serial driver code (a bad outp() which I believe has since been
- Ed> corrected).
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- Actually that was my bug. Don't blame Ted for that one...
- And yes, it's fixed. H.J. noticed it and Linus corrected it.
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