Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Advice re. Terminal Emulator
Message-ID: <1749@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 88 15:38:59 GMT
References: <447@esquire.UUCP> <15200031@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <15200031@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>In fact, DTR is the more correct signal (choosing between RTS & DTR) to
>>use for input flow control.

>There are a lot of devices that will close connections if you drop DTR;
>I wouldn't try this at home, kids.

Such devices usually being modems and not suitable for _hardware_ flow
control anyway.  Most of the rest (non-modems) probably use XON/XOFF.
For the remaining few, nobody said the DTR signal line of the Mac had
to be connected to the DTR input of the whatsis.  The Mac has power pins
on the serial connector for faking a DTR for these.

RS-232 as a standard is anything but.  I stand by my original statement.

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