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- Subject: Re: termios, /dev/aux
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 11:15:13 MDT
- From: Howard Chu <hyc@hanauma.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
-
-
- Hi all,
-
- yesterday I played around with ZModem source code (version 3.23 from
- 5-03-93). I've started a termios header files and the support functions
- (mostly dummies for now).
-
- HOWEVER: sz tries to open /dev/tty. Question #1: I would say that for us,
- this should be /dev/aux, ok? open() calls unx2dos, which translates that
- to AUX:. Then, it tries a call to Fattrib(), which of course fails.
- -> I can't open() "AUX:". I guess that this is a bug :-)
-
- Hm. Previous versions of zmodem just checked if stdin and stdout isatty().
- That let you run zmodem both during a dial-up terminal session, and from
- a local session directed to anywhere else. I think this is the correct &
- most desirable behavior... I've been hacking up Bammi's old Zmodem sources
- along these lines, to eliminate the distinction between the "STANDALONE" and
- "REMOTE" versions. Zmodem shouldn't mess with tty speeds, parity, or
- whatever, it should just set cooked or raw mode on file descriptor 1 as
- needed. Some other program should have done the real conditioning of the
- line already.
-
- (My opinions only, obviously...)
- -- Howard
-