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|    Joaquim Homrighausen to Ozz Nixon    |
|    UART communications question.    |
|    16 Nov 17 23:22:06    |
       on> My problem is, accepting the connection in the mailer, and        on> shutting down to hand off the connection to the BBS... my        on> old code Lowered DTR and swapped to disk and called qbbs.        on> This is not working (may have introduced new bug cleaning        on> up this 20 yr old code)... but, could someone refresh me with        on> the process for chaining A to B w/o dropping carrier?              Well ... not knowing the intention behind doing so, but dropping DTR will       typically tell your "modem" (or "emulated modem") to terminate the session.              (There are other uses for DTR, but they were rare "way back" and probably       T-Rex:ish nowdays)                             -joho              ---        * Origin: code.code.code (2:20/4609)    |
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