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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem
Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:15:54 -0700
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:In article <EBxuFA.A64@nonexistent.com>,
:Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote:
:>Are there any programs that have a modem-light display for X (for an
:>internal modem)? If not, what kind of calls would I use to get the modem
:>status, so I can write one?
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man 4 tty
The ioctl you want is probably TIOCMGET, though that will not give
you the rx and tx status. I'm not sure what you can do about that,
perhaps there is a kernel data structure you can hook onto to get
per-tty byte counts.
-Matt