OBM <--> Telebit incompatibility: SUMMARY
David S. Herron
david at twg.com
Mon Feb 18 07:50:57 AEST 1991
In article <984 at gnosys.svle.ma.us> gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
>(The basic notion is that when a connection is established, the getty - which
> is not a real getty, but just a front end - reads the speed code from the
> modem, and then invokes the real getty after having done an ioctl, or it calls
> the getty with the speed as an argument - I forget which.
Yes.. that's a fairly simple thing to do ..
but *WHY* do this? I run mine (3b1 with TB+) with the interface
speed locked at 19200 and have no problem. The modem simply takes
care of translating any speed difference internally without need
for hacks like BREAK. I also run with hardware flow control enabled
(yeah, sure, lots of systems use BREAK for switching baud rate .. that
doesn't make it any less of a hack)
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