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From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Subject: Re: termios, /dev/aux
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 12:08:30 MET DST
In-Reply-To: <9307141815.AA02315@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov>; from "Howard Chu" at Jul 14, 93 11:15 am
> 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().
Hm, I don't understand that. In which situation won't stdin be a tty?
> 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
>
Agreed. It was more of question of software portability -- I just wanted to
check how complicated it would be (in fact, I'm very happy with CoNnect's
builtin ZModem).
So the question still is: why can't I open() `AUX:' when MiNT is not present?
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Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-48161 Muenster
eMail: reschke@math.uni-muenster.de jr@ms.maus.de
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