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   Message 108 of 342   
   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   
      
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    * Origin: code.code.code (2:20/4609)   

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