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Re: Hardware flow control

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From: George Malits
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:57
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In article <1992Nov9.114616.18566@spectrum.xerox.com>, hdavies@rx.xerox.com 
(Hugh J.E. Davies) writes:
> Some IACs don't support hardware flow control (IAC8?) ......
> ---


It's been a while but I think Hugh has it backwards.  The IAC-8's are the ones
with "full modem" support and thus do handle DSR/DTR.  I think some of the larger
IAC's (16's and 24's) are "null modem" and thus don't support hardware flow
control.
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From: malits@sw.stratus.com (George Malits)
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Subject: Re: Hardware flow control
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Date: 10 Nov 92 14:57:07 GMT
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