Subj : UART communications question.
To : Ozz Nixon
From : Joaquim Homrighausen
Date : Thu Nov 16 2017 11:22 pm
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)
