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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Using 16550AFN with SCO 3.2.4
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.141335.17702@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:13:35 GMT
- References: <1dbi9aINN17s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov08.112542.1189@lasernet.co.za> <JOCHEN.92Nov11192020@busybit.mrz.sub.org> <46W8U3G@geminix.in-berlin.de>
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- In article <46W8U3G@geminix.in-berlin.de>, gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:
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- | >Don't use FAS with SCO Unix ! You will get a lot of problems and you
- | >really will not need FAS !
-
- Well, FAS solved problems switching between incoming and outgoing
- calls, and uses less CPU than the SCO driver, but if you don't mind
- fighting with lines which don't switch back to incoming after an
- outgoing call, and only have one or two high speed lines, then you don't
- *need* FAS.
-
- | 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)?
- | Does it have DCD drop sensing on the dialout device, too? This is
- | important for uucico dialouts.
-
- Sounds right to me. I can use some really uucp unaware software due to
- extra devices. No lock files needed, thanks, all done at the driver
- level. I can't say that the SCO driver is *bad*, but I can't rate it
- higher than adequate, either. The one thing about the SCO driver is that
- it seems to support more types of serial device than FAS, although you
- have source with FAS.
-
- Sure wish FAS run with Linux.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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