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Re: Hardwired Terminal Max Speed
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:01:06 -0800
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On Nov 23,  5:07pm, Wayne Burke wrote:
> Subject: Hardwired Terminal Max Speed
snip...
> How does the MPE SPEED command interact with the terminal type
> configured for the LDEV ?
 
It calls fcontrol using items 10 and 11.
 
snip...
 
> How come at 700/92 terminal can be configured for 38.4k but using the
> MPE SPEED or SET SPEED commands says this is invalid ?
 
Because we have a bug!  Thanks for asking.  The parser for :SET only
allows 6 unique baud rates, and we have code to limit the max value to 19200.
Probably we should accept any number and report an error if fcontrol() fails.
 
Thanks,
Jeff Vance, MPE/iX Lab
 
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