"Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote in
news:Sv_Ve.541$gK.457@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net:

>
> "Rick Palen" <rickpalen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96D17CB24085rickpalen@69.28.186.121...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have just upgraded a site from OSR 5.0.5 to 6.0.0. This has
>> gone mostly well.
>>
>> I am now trying to set up DigiFax which they have been using for
>> years. I tried to set hardware flow control for the modem port
>> using stty -ortsfl ctsflow rtsflow but stty no longer recognizes
>> any of those three flags. They are still in the docs!
>>
>> Anybody know where they went or what I may be doing wrong? How
>> can I set up hardware flow control for tty1A?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick Palen
>
> You're doing nothing wrong. It looks like they're changing over
> to rtsxoff and ctsxon, but these options aren't enabled in stty yet,
> and the man pages for stty and termio haven't been updated.
> Look at man asyc for other options to open the serial port
> with certain modes already enabled, by using devices in /dev/tty*
> and /dev/term:
>
> # l /dev/tty1[aA]
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 3 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty1A
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 2 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty1a
>
> # l /dev/tty00*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 3, 0 Jul 21 06:51 /dev/tty00
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 1 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty00h
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 3 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty00m
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 0 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty00s
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 2 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/tty00t
>
> # l /dev/term/00*
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 0 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/term/00
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 1 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/term/00h
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 3 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/term/00m
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 0 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/term/00s
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3, 2 Aug 30 12:03 /dev/term/00t
>
> So, /dev/term/00t and /dev/tty00t are the equivalent of /dev/tty1a
> (terminal), and /dev/term/00m and /dev/tty00m are the equivalent of
> /dev/tty1A (modem).
>
> /dev/term/00h and /dev/tty00h have RTS/CTS (hardware) handshaking
> enabled. (This is the one you're looking for.)
>
> /dev/term/00, /dev/term/00s, /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty00s have XON/XOFF
> (software) flow-control enabled.
>
> Bob
>
>
>

Bob,

Thanks very much, that worked. Some of this software is old but
it just keeps on ticking!

Rick