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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: sio - problem with login hanging up
Message-ID: <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 93 19:41:55 GMT
References: <g89r4222.742299445@kudu> <CA0ssD.1r2@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
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In article <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >SIO is pretty fascist about signals, apparently.

> Could you be more specific?

SIO requires that you have all the right lines (DTR/DCD/etc) asserted before
it'll work (I assume, all my cables carry all signals, and reported problems
seem to be due to people with less complete ones). This isn't bad, it's just
something you need to watch for.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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