XON/XOFF Flow Control on Serial Printer Ports

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From: les
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 15:06

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 Is there any way to get a serial printer port to obey XON/XOFF flow
control (as opposed to CTS/RTS) in MS-DOS?  I'm using a serial printer
on my 286 and use the MODE command to configure LPT2: as a serial
printer port.  The printer can only use XON/XOFF to control the
flow of data from the PC.  The PC, however, seems to ignore an XOFF and
the printer buffer overflows causing data loss.

 Thanks in advance,
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Les Flodrowski                                   CA: les@vaxi.sscl.uwo.CA
Social Science Computing Laboratory          Bitnet: les@uwovax.BITNET
University of Western Ontario                  UUCP: les@julian.UUCP
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2                     (...!watmath!julian..)

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Subject: XON/XOFF Flow Control on Serial Printer Ports
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Date: 5 Jan 90 15:06:49 GMT
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