According to William O Ferry:
>
>    This really seems to me that it's the printer's buffer overflowing
>that's causing the problem.  The printer's DTR line signals whether it's
>able to accept more input or if the buffer is full.  This is mapped
>properly to the DSR pin on the SPARC's "A" serial port.  Though looking
>at the stty(1) manpage and such, there doesn't seem to be any support
>for DSR, only CTS.  Is this true? 
>

I think so.  Why don't you just wire the DTR pin to CTS on the sun
serial port?  This is what I did with a HP paintjet when I was playing
the same sort of game that you are.

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