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.Dd May 15, 1994
.Dt COMCONTROL 8
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm comcontrol
.Nd control an sio device.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm comcontrol
.Ar sio_special_device
.Op options
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Comcontrol
is used to examine and modify some of the special characterstics
of the specified sio device.
If no arguments other than the device are specified,
it prints the settings of all controllable characteristics.
This usage requires only read access on the device.
Only the superuser can change the settings.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Cm dtrwait Ar number
Set the time to wait after dropping DTR
to the given number.
The units are hundredths of a second.
The default is 300 hundredths, i.e., 3 seconds.
.El
.Pp
The standard way to use
.Nm comcontrol
is to put invocations of it in the
.Ar /etc/rc.local
startup script.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sio 4
.Xr stty 1 .
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa
.It Pa /dev/ttyd?
dialin devices.
.It Pa /dev/cua0?
dialout devices.
.Sh AUTHOR
Christopher G. Demetriou
.Sh BUGS
.Nm comcontrol
should be named
.Nm siocontrol .
.
.Sh HISTORY
Originally part of cgd's com package patches, version 0.2.1, to 386BSD 0.1.
Once controlled bidirectional capabilities.  Little is left to control now
that these capabilities are standard.
Commit	Line	Data
e39e9187	1	.Dd May 15, 1994
8e9003a9 AC	2	.Dt COMCONTROL 8
	3	.Os FreeBSD
	4	.Sh NAME
	5	.Nm comcontrol
e39e9187	6	.Nd control an sio device.
8e9003a9 AC	7	.Sh SYNOPSIS
	8	.Nm comcontrol
	9	.Ar sio_special_device
e39e9187	10	.Op options
8e9003a9 AC	11	.Sh DESCRIPTION
8e9003a9 AC	12	.Nm Comcontrol
e39e9187 AC	13	is used to examine and modify some of the special characterstics
	14	of the specified sio device.
	15	If no arguments other than the device are specified,
	16	it prints the settings of all controllable characteristics.
	17	This usage requires only read access on the device.
	18	Only the superuser can change the settings.
	19	.Pp
	20	The following options are available:
	21	.Bl -tag -width Fl
	22	.It Cm dtrwait Ar number
	23	Set the time to wait after dropping DTR
	24	to the given number.
	25	The units are hundredths of a second.
	26	The default is 300 hundredths, i.e., 3 seconds.
	27	.El
8e9003a9 AC	28	.Pp
	29	The standard way to use
	30	.Nm comcontrol
	31	is to put invocations of it in the
	32	.Ar /etc/rc.local
	33	startup script.
	34	.Sh SEE ALSO
	35	.Xr sio 4
e39e9187	36	.Xr stty 1 .
8e9003a9 AC	37	.Sh FILES
8e9003a9 AC	38	.Bl -tag -width Pa
f4ba0bba	39	.It Pa /dev/ttyd?
e39e9187 AC	40	dialin devices.
	41	.It Pa /dev/cua0?
	42	dialout devices.
8e9003a9 AC	43	.Sh AUTHOR
	44	Christopher G. Demetriou
	45	.Sh BUGS
e39e9187 AC	46	.Nm comcontrol
	47	should be named
	48	.Nm siocontrol .
	49	.
8e9003a9 AC	50	.Sh HISTORY
8e9003a9 AC	51	Originally part of cgd's com package patches, version 0.2.1, to 386BSD 0.1.
e39e9187 AC	52	Once controlled bidirectional capabilities. Little is left to control now
e39e9187 AC	53	that these capabilities are standard.