Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Fix microcom command-line help and -X.

2017-01-25 Thread enh 
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Rob Landley  wrote:
> Catching up...
>
> ctrl-x is not a good escape character, it's the "attention" key for
> emacs. The traditional (telnet) escape character is ctrl-right bracket
> (ascii 29) which as far as I know doesn't conflict with anything. Any
> strong opinions if I change it? (I've done it for now but can switch it
> back if there's strong opposition. Trying to get a release out...)

i thought ctrl-x was weird too, but wanted to duplicate an existing
wheel rather than start on a new one :-)

the other thing that seemed odd to me was that there was no support
for _actually_ sending the escape character.

> I have a loop that calculates all the serial speed values (through 4
> megabits/second) but unfortunately the serial devices I have lying
> around ignore the serial speed setting. (I did -s 115200 and -s 9600 and
> it behaves identically.) Alas, fairly common thing with USB to serial
> converters (which tend to have a fixed speed on one side and a packet
> protocol on the other; one one side you have to match the hardwired
> speed, on the other speed setting is completely ignored).
>
> That said, you've convinced me not to try to make most of the code
> common because nothing else (except stty) really cares about serial
> ports. (Unless I add a pppd which nobody's asked for yet. :)
>
> Rob



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Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] Fix microcom command-line help and -X.

2017-01-25 Thread Rob Landley 
Catching up...

ctrl-x is not a good escape character, it's the "attention" key for
emacs. The traditional (telnet) escape character is ctrl-right bracket
(ascii 29) which as far as I know doesn't conflict with anything. Any
strong opinions if I change it? (I've done it for now but can switch it
back if there's strong opposition. Trying to get a release out...)

I have a loop that calculates all the serial speed values (through 4
megabits/second) but unfortunately the serial devices I have lying
around ignore the serial speed setting. (I did -s 115200 and -s 9600 and
it behaves identically.) Alas, fairly common thing with USB to serial
converters (which tend to have a fixed speed on one side and a packet
protocol on the other; one one side you have to match the hardwired
speed, on the other speed setting is completely ignored).

That said, you've convinced me not to try to make most of the code
common because nothing else (except stty) really cares about serial
ports. (Unless I add a pppd which nobody's asked for yet. :)

Rob
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