From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 11 15:32:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA6D15173 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id UAA02418; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:20:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:18:52 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199904110345.WAA00963@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:18:49 +0000 To: joelh@gnu.org From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Baud rate of 0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At 10:45 pm -0500 10/4/99, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >Why does setting the baud rate of a (wired tty) connection to 0 >terminate it? When is this useful? It's been the standard way of hanging up a modem since V7 at least. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message