Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications

[tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>]

On Apr 16, 4:12 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2011-04-16, tonyg <tonytheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Well spotted, I missed that after several trawls through. It also
> > screams out as the problem I am having. Now I just got to figure the
> > proper linux command to switch the handshaking off. Its interesting
> > that minicom seems to detect all this and configure itself so well....
>
> You can use stty itself to change the default RTS/CTS setting before
> running the Ada program.
>
> However, this will not work if the GNAT serial port library package
> issues any serial port flow control calls itself to reconfigure the
> serial port.
>
> I don't know if GNAT does this; I don't use the GNAT serial port
> packages.
>
> Try a "man 3 termios" on your Linux system for further information.
> the
> Simon.
>
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> Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Looking at the gnat sercom package it has a total lack of options for
flow control. I am going to look at posix packages now and its options
with serial interfaces. Does anyone know if Adacore are planning to
add some more functionality to this package?