Subject: Re: Problem with the 3/7 sources.
To: Yeng-Chee Su <yenchee@zeus.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
From: Perry E. Metzger <pmetzger@lehman.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/13/1994 13:53:42
Yeng-Chee Su says:
> > In the next few days, i'm going to provide a means where people can
> > almost-permanently wire their 'com'-driven tty ports to have CLOCAL,
> > CRTSCTS, or 'software carrier' set. That should help some.
> >
> Would you please make it Sun compatible? I modify the com.c if it's
> open with minor(dev)>=128, the COM_SW_SOFTCAR is set automatically, and
> it will be reset when close. This make me can use cua0, cua1 for dial-out
> service and tty00,tty01 for dialin service.
Actually, this particular trick originated on the Vax version of BSD
many moons ago. Its a really good hack; it lets you ask for what you
want very easily.
.pm
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