On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 01:53 PM, der Mouse wrote:
> {\rant I really wish more people building systems like this would take
> the trouble to distinguish between a break condition and other framing
> errors.}  Not that that would help people with existing systems, which
> don't make the distinction, any....

   The problem with this is the fact that most UART chips can't 
distinguish between the two.  Traditionally, a break is 300ms 
long...much longer than a byte at even low baud rates.  A UART can only 
really treat this as a framing error. :-(

          -Dave

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