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In article <4790@gumby.Altos.COM>, jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) writes:
>In article <1991Apr8.044312.29004@hubcap.clemson.edu> dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) writes:
>>
>>   I've just recently aquired my *own* PC, rather than fooling around
>>with the computers the school so nicely lets me use.  Here's the 
>>question:  How do I set the DTR line inactive after some terminal
>>program has finished with the serial port?  
>
>
>To deassert DTR, write a 0 to bit zero of the serial port's Modem Control
>register.  This register is at I/O port address 0x3fc for COM1 and at
>0x2fc for COM2.  Writing a zero to the register will deassert all of the
>modem control lines.  An example in C follows:
>
>
>	outp(0x3fc, 0);		/* turn off all modem control lines */

Not really a good idea, they might not all get reset to the proper value the
next time you go to use it.  A better idea would be:

        outportb(0x3fc,(inportb(0x3fc) & 0xfe));  /* set bit 0 to 0 */

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