smith%nrl-aic@sri-unix.UUCP (10/25/83)
From: Russ Smith <smith@nrl-aic> Pardon to the rest on the net but since the reply from Little.Fleas went to the whole list I felt it necessary to respond to the whole list. I was very careful to state the particular hardware involved with the problem I was having. The GODBOUT Interfacer II is NOT programmable. It uses plain old vanilla UARTS. It's true that reading a couple bytes from the CRT port actually doesn't do anything, however, reading from the modem port gets rid of any IN-THE-UART garbage bytes. None of the hardware lines is affected by anything done by the software I use. In fact, most are HARDWIRED to a certain state (look at the specs for this board. Very very little is controlled by software). DTR, CTS, etc. stay just the way they were. Remember, I can use either the home-grown modem program or MDM712 to make one connection. For any other connections I have to power the Smartmodem down for a little while first. My request for help still stands. A couple people have had interesting suggestions which I'll soon try out. If you have any help/info/suggestions after (carefully) reading my initial plea, please respond to me directly. I'll see that any important discoveries re this particular set of hardware get sent to the net. Thanks, Russ <Smith@nrl-aic>