xref: /freebsd/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 (revision afe61c15161c324a7af299a9b8457aba5afc92db)
1.Dd May 15, 1994
2.Dt COMCONTROL 8
3.Os FreeBSD
4.Sh NAME
5.Nm comcontrol
6.Nd control an sio device.
7.Sh SYNOPSIS
8.Nm comcontrol
9.Ar sio_special_device
10.Op options
11.Sh DESCRIPTION
12.Nm Comcontrol
13is used to examine and modify some of the special characterstics
14of the specified sio device.
15If no arguments other than the device are specified,
16it prints the settings of all controllable characteristics.
17This usage requires only read access on the device.
18Only the superuser can change the settings.
19.Pp
20The following options are available:
21.Bl -tag -width Fl
22.It Cm dtrwait Ar number
23Set the time to wait after dropping DTR
24to the given number.
25The units are hundredths of a second.
26The default is 300 hundredths, i.e., 3 seconds.
27.El
28.Pp
29The standard way to use
30.Nm comcontrol
31is to put invocations of it in the
32.Ar /etc/rc.local
33startup script.
34.Sh SEE ALSO
35.Xr sio 4
36.Xr stty 1 .
37.Sh FILES
38.Bl -tag -width Pa
39.It Pa /dev/ttyd?
40dialin devices.
41.It Pa /dev/cua0?
42dialout devices.
43.Sh AUTHOR
44Christopher G. Demetriou
45.Sh BUGS
46.Nm comcontrol
47should be named
48.Nm siocontrol .
49.
50.Sh HISTORY
51Originally part of cgd's com package patches, version 0.2.1, to 386BSD 0.1.
52Once controlled bidirectional capabilities.  Little is left to control now
53that these capabilities are standard.
54