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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: system hang during file transfer over serial port Date: 15 Aug 1995 03:46:40 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <40p5b0$jre@news.bu.edu> References: <9508092036.AA21965@johnwayne.src.honeywell.com> <40f59a$7pb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <40l6qq$98m@trauma.rn.com> <40nfhc$l2m@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (14 Aug 1995 14:28:28 +0200) honorable J Wunsch, residing at j@bonnie.heep.sax.de wrote: |I think PPP can handle it if you tell it in some configuration file or |flag. Yes, it can... You need a word `crtscts' in you /etc/ppp/options BTW, I hit the same problem using Norton PC Anywhere from DOS -- uploading was alright, but downloading was hanging the computer; setting a hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) helped me there... Read pppd's man page for more. -mi -- -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!