Re: Controlling DTR

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From: David Wong
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:24

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In article <to01j18@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <34741@adm.brl.mil> bclark@ctron.com (Bret Clark) writes:
>
>| I am posting this for someone. The person is writing
>| code using C and needs to control the DTR signal on
>| the serial port of an IRIS Indigo. They have been unable to 
>| find reference to it in the man or documentation.
>
>Basicly, you can't.
>--
>Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
>because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

there is a tricky way to do this.  use ioctl to set to B0 to deassert DTR
and then set it back to your regular baud rate to assert DTR.

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