Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:13:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: tcg@ime.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Help Message-ID: <199607082313.QAA22889@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607071622.SAA16843@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 7, 96 06:22:10 pm
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> In stty, on is shown as clocal, and off is shown as -clocal. The > modem control line to which it refers is DCD (Data Carrier Detect), > which only comes on when you have established a connection. In the > olden days, before modems had autodial capability, this was > appropriate, but now it's a pain. CLOCAL means "hang pending off->on DCD transition from the DCE". CLOCAL is supposed to be set/unset based on the use of the O_NDELAY or non-use of O_NDELAY as an open flag. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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