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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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