RTS behavior

Apr 12, 2008 1 Replies

Hi everyone,



(except advertising spammers...)



I use the command line: COPY anyfile.dat COM2 to send in a simple way a stream of data to a device. It works fine. Only the Tx line is used here.



The serial port setting as reported by the command MODE COM2 is:



Serial port status COM2:



---------------------------- Baud : 115200 Parité : None Bits de données : 7 Bits d'arrêt : 1 Temporisation : OFF XON/XOFF : OFF Protocole CTS : OFF Protocole DSR : OFF Sensibilité DSR : OFF Circuit DTR : OFF Circuit RTS : ON



I would like to know a bit more about the RTS line that goes high (negative to positive voltage that is) during the transmission. I would like to use it to control a gating circuit at the receiving end.



So my question is: Is the RTS line goes high *before* the first byte is sent and goes low



*after* the last byte has been sent?

Sam



On a sunny day (Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:42:49 -0400) it happened "Sam" wrote in :

I dunno about MS software, but normally, if no hardware handshaking, RTS is just a bit in the UART that you can set and reset, it will stay set or reset all the time. The above list you show suggests RTS is 'on' all the time.

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