Subject: Re: Serial Port Programming
To: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.del.ufrj.br>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/31/1996 01:57:51
Hello, all.

> I'm in need of help.
> 
> I have been pouring over the man pages on termios, ioctl, etc.  Then I   
> checked out the Using C on the UNIX System book, and it seems just a bit   
> dated, and is actually worthless on port control.  I went to the   
> /usr/share/docs for help and was very disappointed.
> 
> I've looked at the source for tip/cu and getty but the programs go about   
> opening the port differently.  Then after looking at sliplogin, there is   
> the whole issue of POSIX or not.

What kind of access to serial ports do you need?  I'm writing a
program to monitor an UPS serial interface with the closest approach
to DOS's direct reads as I could find.

Is this your case?

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	Pappires