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diff --git a/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 b/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..53d7d332afdc --- /dev/null +++ b/sbin/comcontrol/comcontrol.8 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.Dd May 15, 1994 +.Dt COMCONTROL 8 +.Os FreeBSD +.Sh NAME +.Nm comcontrol +.Nd control an sio device. +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm comcontrol +.Ar sio_special_device +.Op options +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Comcontrol +is used to examine and modify some of the special characterstics +of the specified sio device. +If no arguments other than the device 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. +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width Fl +.It Cm dtrwait Ar number +Set the time to wait after dropping DTR +to the given number. +The units are hundredths of a second. +The default is 300 hundredths, i.e., 3 seconds. +.El +.Pp +The standard way to use +.Nm comcontrol +is to put invocations of it in the +.Ar /etc/rc.local +startup script. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sio 4 , +.Xr stty 1 . +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Pa +.It Pa /dev/ttyd? +dialin devices. +.It Pa /dev/cua0? +dialout devices. +.Sh AUTHOR +Christopher G. Demetriou +.Sh BUGS +.Nm comcontrol +should be named +.Nm siocontrol . +. +.Sh HISTORY +Originally part of cgd's com package patches, version 0.2.1, to 386BSD 0.1. +Once controlled bidirectional capabilities. Little is left to control now +that these capabilities are standard. |