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In article <12897@gryphon.COM> jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) writes:
>>I just received word from Bryce that the "standard" way to drop DTR
>>is to close and then reopen the device.  This should work no matter
>>what serial device and unit one is using.
>>
>>-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
>
>This is a badly broken approach. There MUST be a method of dropping DTR in
>a multitasking environment without losing the serial device. If you close the 
>device something else can sneak in there and steal it. I hope Bryce rethinks
>this serial attitude problem and cleans this freking thing up a bit. All the
>bits of the port should be controllable by the application software through
>standard means. Otherwise some uses becoem too awkward to bear thinking about.
>{`_'}   Grump

	Don't be grumpy, Joanne.

	This is the approved way to drop DTR _until_ 1.4 comes out.  That will
have a far better way to handle it.  (Plus we guarantee that close/open will
drop dtr in 1.4, so current code will be ok.)

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup