http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?termios
Look at the bits which talk about XON and XOFF (for software control)
Look at the bits which talk about CTS and RTS (for hardware control)
Remember, you need a fully wired serial cable for hardware control.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Didn't work also. BTW, in minicom, I set the software and hardware control to "NO". So I guess it means that it didn't use flow control at all. BTW, when I asked the person who make the device, he said that he built it to be an asynchronous NULL modem.
Well then you have a problem then, if neither form of flow control is implemented.
It's "fine" if you use it at human typing speed (a few chars per second), but if you send a huge block at program speed, then the link is swamped, data is lost and you're in the dark.
Testing is like pouring cold water into a chocolate teapot and saying that it works.
Your hardware designer has built and tested a cold water teapot, and you're coming along with hot water.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
I see. Guess I have no choice but to have a discussion with the hardware programmer. But why does if I tried it in minicom it worked without any flow control? How does minicom work? Does it send the message one char at a time everytime it recognized a key press?
Thanks a lot.
> But why does if I tried it in minicom it worked without any flow control?
> Bps / Par / Bits : 4800 8N1
Because you can't type at 500 characters per second would be my guess.
Whereas your code has absolutely no trouble maintaining a rate of 500 chars per second.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Ahh, that makes sense. And I thought minicom sends the message after I hit "Enter". Silly me. Thanks for clearing that up.Originally Posted by Salem
