jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) (11/19/90)
I need some information on controling and determining the status of
modem control lines with SCO SYSV/386. More precisely, I need to:
1. Set DTR on.
2. Set DTR off.
3. Set RTS on.
4. Set RTS off.
5. Determine the state of CD.
6. Determine the state of CTS.
I am NOT using this with a modem. I need to communicate with a very
non-standard device (an external industrial > tape drive), which has
its own very strange communication protocol. Therefore, RTSFLOW and
CTSFLOW are not adequate, as they set the port behavior according to
some other protocol. To initiate communications with this device, I
am required to set RTS off, wait for CD to go on, set RTS on, wait
for CD to go off, and so on. Therefore, I need to set the pins, or
determine the state off the pins directly.
So far, I cannot find this information in the /usr/includes. My SCO
tech support distributor says it cannot be done. I am not inclined to
believe this response.
Thanks.
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| work jli@mdt 404-642-3005wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov19.151422.3584@bagend.uucp> jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) writes: > >I need some information on controling and determining the status of >modem control lines with SCO SYSV/386. More precisely, I need to: > >1. Set DTR on. open the tty line >2. Set DTR off. close the line This is the only way to manipulate the DTR line. >3. Set RTS on. >4. Set RTS off. These are not directly manipulable. >5. Determine the state of CD. >6. Determine the state of CTS. These are not readable. You could accomplish these goals by hacking a "public source" driver such as FAS, but the standard driver, as is true with all standard System V and BSD drivers, ye are lost. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, TuckerWare emory!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US ANSI C should have been named D, or Son of C