In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 05:38:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > Hmm, last time I checked, they were just 'serial ports'.
> >
> > Nope. The significance is determined by the software, and you're stuck
> > with the fact that the first serial port is the console port. End of
> > story. (Note: if we don't make some assumption about which port will be
> > the console, how do you expect the software to work out which one it
> > "should" use?)
>
>Insist that consoles be cabled-in with "real" cables, and use the first
>port we find with DCD asserted as the console, falling back to COM1 if
>we can't find any ports with DCD (indicating that someone has failed to
>follow our cabling insistence)
Btw. I just came across a 'null modem cable' that connects DCD to:
nothing! It connects DTR to DSR but _not_ to DCD... other than that the
wiring appears to be normal. Well, so i hacked an `altpin' flag into
sio that lets me swap the functions of DSR and DCD. (Anyone thinks
that would be worth cleaning up and send-pr'ing?)
And a happy new year to everyone...
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