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@(#)dcl.4 5.1 (Berkeley) 06/29/90

DCL 4 ""
C 7
NAME
dcl - HP 98628A communications link
SYNOPSIS
"device dcl0 at scode? flags 0x1"
DESCRIPTION
The 98628A is a buffered EIA RS-232C (CCITT V.28) communications interface. It has one port with full modem control.

Each line attached to the 98628A behaves as described in tty (4). Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates; 0, 50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 200, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200. See tty (4) for the encoding.

Flags should be set to 1 if the line should be treated as hard-wired with carrier always present, or to 0 if modem control is desired.

Use HP cable "98626 & 98628 opts.002, RS232-C DCE CABLE, 5061-4216" to attach non-modem devices. Use HP cable "98626 & 98628 opts.001, RS232-C DTE CABLE, 5061-4215" to attach modems.

The 98628A has a 256 byte input silo and a 256 output silo. Input interrupts happen on a per character basis.

The high water and low water marks in the kernel tty routines are totally inappropriate for a device like this with a large input buffer. Don't use tandem mode if possible. A fast system can handle input at 19.2K baud without receive overflow. For output to devices that make heavy use of XON/XOFF a write size of less then 256 will improve performance marginally.

FILES
/dev/ttyl[0-9]
"SEE ALSO"
tty(4)
DIAGNOSTICS
dcl%d: error 0x%x RESET CARD Where the errors are in coded as 0x06 card failure 0x0d uart receive overflow 0x0e receive overflow 0x0f missing external clock 0x10 cts false too long 0x11 lost carrier 0x12 activity timeout 0x13 connection not established 0x19 illegal databits/parity 0x1a register address out of range 0x1b register value out of range 0x-- unknown error
BUGS
Breaks received at a faster rate then 1 break every second will be recognized as a single break. Console use is not supported. The RS-422/423/499, MTS-DSN/DL modes of the card are not supported.