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- From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Using 16550AFN with SCO 3.2.4
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.081639.19452@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Nov08.112542.1189@lasernet.co.za>> <JOCHEN.92Nov11192020@busybit.mrz.sub.org> <46W8U3G@geminix.in-berlin.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:16:39 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:
- >
- >I'd say that FAS still has many important features that sio doesn't have.
- >It may be true that the person who started this thread doesn't need FAS
- >for his/her application, but the assumption that FAS doesn't gain you
- >anything on SCO UNIX in general would be wrong.
- >
- >For instance, does sio allow 57600 and 115200 bps? Does it have built-in
- >modem line sharing for dialin and dialout (no uugetty hack necessary)?
- >
-
- I can't tell if you're calling uugetty a hack, or talking about a hack
- in addition to uugetty.
-
- The machine I run seems to do quite well with sio and 3.2.4's getty.
- When I had 3.2.2, it did just as well with uugetty.
-
- However, it does require uugetty functionality (for the lock file
- handling), though the -r option isn't necessary when things are
- configured properly.
-
- >
- >Does it have DCD drop sensing on the dialout device, too? This is
- >important for uucico dialouts.
- >
-
- It always has for me. Perhaps that's because I've always used the
- modem port (tty1A) for both dialin and dialout. I only use the
- non-modem port (tty1a) for talking to the modem through a direct
- cu session (i.e. "cu -ltty1a -s19200 dir"). This is how SCO's
- documentation described the setup as far back as Xenix 2.3.2.
-
- SCO's cu and uucico appear to do the right thing when they open the
- port, setting O_NDELAY until after DCD turns on (or the login script
- completes, or something).
-
-
- Now my machine doesn't take many calls per day (probably 5 or 6).
- Perhaps sio has trouble when there's more activity, but it seems
- to me that it has those two features you asked about.
-
- Nope, no 57600 or 115200... :(
-
-
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