Serial port, hardware handshaking not availible ?!?

[Mike "Ford" Ditto]

rcstack at rw9.urc.tue.nl (Studenten Vereniging Stack) writes:
> if the printer receives an XOFF in software handshake mode, it stops receiving
> data until it receives an XON. While sending a bitmap in fast mode, everytime
> a ctrl-s is in the data (once every 256 bytes average) the data is lost until
> the next XON character.

This sounds like you have a totally braindamaged printer.  Obviously,
you can not send binary data to any device which works as you
describe, no matter how the sending device is configured.


> I know the amiga can do hardware handshaking (at least my old 500 can).
> 
> BUT HOW DO I DO IT ON AMIGA UNIX!

CTS/RTS handshaking is always enabled for the builtin serial port.  If
you have XON/XOFF enabled, it will use that in addition, but the CTS
line is always treated as hardware flow control.

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