Subject: Re: /etc/ttys behavior
To: Michael Hendrick <mlh@csranet.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@vali.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/15/1998 09:42:33
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Michael Hendrick wrote:

> What I meant was that I had both dtrcts and mdmbuf set as flags in
> /etc/ttys.
> 
> > Why are you trying to assert mdmbuf at the same time as cdtrcts? The both
> > use the dtr pin, and so only one can be set at a time.
> 
> Maybe just an unnecessary habit leftover from 1.2 when I had to set both
> rtscts and mdmbuf to get proper flow control inbound and outbound.

Ooo. Someone actually used that flow control mode!

cdtrcts is what setting both crtscts and mdmbuf was trying to do, only
much more cleanly done.

I'll try to figure out why the driver got freaked, and fix it for 1.3.1.

Take care,

Bill