zben@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/08/83)
[..] Well, finally we agree on *something*, to wit that we have just about beat this topic to death. Unless someone has something else new to add lets just let it die here. You err when you state that the terminal equipment can refuse data by manipulation of the control lines. According to the standard, DTE or terminal equipment MAY NOT IGNORE DATA, must accept data at the full rate. The RTS/CTS handshake allows the MODEM (DCE) to refuse to take data. Comments on the brainlessness of this arrangement are probably reasonable. Note that this printer of yours will probably fail horribly if you try to use it as a remote printer on a modem. The first time the buffer fills, you will lose your communications line. Clearly this is not the correct action to take. Thus your printer does not conform to the standard. If it makes you feel any better, when I press the RESET key on my H19, it drops DTR momentarily, and I lose the line down to campus. I am told that there is a strapping option in this modem (PENRIL DCD 300/1200) but since it is a loaner modem I'm somewhat leery of opening it up and messing with it.