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af359dea 37.Dd March 27, 1991
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38.Dt DCA 4 hp300
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm dca
42.Nd
43.Tn HP 98644A
44communications interface
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "device dca0 at scode9 flags 0x1"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Tn 98644A
50is a single port
51.Tn EIA
52.Tn RS-232C
53.Pf ( Tn CCITT
54.Tn V.28 )
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55communications interface with a single character buffer.
56Such an interface is built-in to all series 300 machines.
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f4a65166 58Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
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5950, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600 or
6019200.
61.Pp
62An optional argument
63.Ar flags
64may be set to 1 if the line should be treated as hard-wired
f4a65166 65with carrier always present or 0 if modem control is desired.
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66.Sh FILES
67.Bl -tag -width Pa
68.It Pa /dev/tty0
69.El
70.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
71.Bl -diag
72.It dca%d: silo overflow.
73The single-character input
74.Dq silo
f4a65166 75has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
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76.El
77.Sh SEE ALSO
78.Xr tty 4
79.Sh HISTORY
80The
81.Nm
82driver
83.Ud
84.Sh BUGS
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85Data loss is possible on busy systems with baud rates greater than 300.
86The
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88has never been tested with modem control enabled or on anything but the
89built-in interface.