Do I really need to BREAK to change baud rates?
Russ Nelson
nelson at sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Tue Dec 25 18:34:00 AEST 1990
In article <158 at mnopltd.UUCP> neal at mnopltd.UUCP writes:
->Is there a way to convince the tty2A driver to automagically
->change baud rates on Xenix 2.3.2? My boss just found out that
->you have to send a break, and he's not happy about it. Is there
->some configuration option I haven't found, or is there an
->alternative tty driver?
Sheesh, yer boss better develop some flexibility. He's gonna have
a cow when he has to deal with awk....
The problem is that I get random users calling into the BBS, and it's not
practical to tell them that they have to press break, nor can I suggest
that they get a 2400 baud modem. My boss is on my case about it because
*he* tried it, and he couldn't get in. His attitude is that if *he*
can't get in, how's J. Random User (who knows as much about the system
as he does) going to get in?
Another part of the problem is that we switched from a MS-DOG BBS to a Xenix
BBS, and now it won't auto-switch baud rates. C'mon, Unix fans, you're not
going to tell me that Unix loses out over MS-LOSS, are you?
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