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From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: Dropping DTR for 1 sec on close with sio: any progress?
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fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) writes:

>Greetings...

>	This is a post relating to 386bsd 0.1 + patchkit 2.4...  

>	I'd just like to find out whether anybody's had time to patch
>the sio serial driver to make it drop DTR for about a second of so after
>a comm port is closed?  (to ensure that the modem drops the carrier
>after a dialout is done)
Actually, there is a fix. I send it to Bruce, who will get it out the
door whenever other important things are fixed as well. I want to
prevetn having to mail a bunch of little patches. 
I'll ask Bruce whenever he expects to get it out.

>	I'm just wondering whether I missed the post while I was on
>vacation (I'd greatly appreciate a patch). I seem to remember Guido
>saying he'd look into this...

>Denis, fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca

>PS. If nobody has had time to look at it, I'll do it.
>PPS. If this is fixed in FreeBSD, it will probably be enough to get me 
>     to upgrade!
>PPPS. Ah heck!  I'll probably upgrade anyway when Nate gets his upgrade
>      script done.

-Guido