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| author | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-01 06:01:51 +0000 |
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| committer | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-01 06:01:51 +0000 |
| commit | a2b0b5bce6b5a413fd2919b6e2f088874cb16067 (patch) | |
| tree | e139a1fcaeab4055c5f833aec6568717f8ed1f04 /sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 | |
| parent | d69344bf549165276685107378a9eb07193e9374 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 b/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 index 6fcc4f551b35..4a09a16373f0 100644 --- a/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 +++ b/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 @@ -4,16 +4,18 @@ .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME .Nm comcontrol -.Nd control an sio device. +.Nd control a special tty device .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm -.Ar sio_special_device -.Op options +.Ar special_device +.Op dtrwait Ar number +.Op drainwait Ar number .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Comcontrol is used to examine and modify some of the special characteristics -of the specified sio device. -If no arguments other than the device are specified, +of the specified tty device. +If no arguments other than the device (or "-" for stdin) +are specified, it prints the settings of all controllable characteristics. This usage requires only read access on the device. Only the superuser can change the settings. @@ -31,7 +33,8 @@ modem reset. Set the time to wait for output drain to the given number. The units are seconds. -The default is 0, i.e. wait forever. +The default is 5 minutes, 0 means +waiting forever. This option needed mainly to specify upper limit of minutes to prevent modem hanging. .El |
