Moxa Technologies C168HS user manual Mstatus

until the output buffer has 'enough space' again. The criteria to tell if the output buffer has 'enough space' is whether the output buffer reached its 'low water' level. That is the output buffer will accept further data only when the 'low water' level is reached. If the 'low water' value is relatively small, you may find that the output buffer become empty before you write another block of data (this is quite possible because UNIX is time-sharing multitasking environment). This will result in discontinuous data transmission. In a timeout-sensitive application, e.g. facsimile (FAX) transmission, discontinuous data may falter the operation.

The default 'low water' is 512 bytes. You can enlarge it but better not exceed one half of the output buffer. Each port's output buffer is 32K bytes.

Syntax for SCO UNIX/OpenServer

#define MLOWATER	0x405
int	lowater; /* low water value of output buffer
	(default = 512 bytes) */
ioctl(moxa_fd, MLOWATER, lowater);
Syntax for UNIX SVR4.2
#include	<sys/stropts.h>
#include	<sys/sysmacros.h>
#define MLOWATER	0x405
struct strioctl	ioc;

int lowater; /* low water value of output buffer (default = 512 bytes) */ ioc.ic_cmd = MLOWATER;

ioc.ic_timout = 0; ioc.ic_len = sizeof(int); ioc.ic_dp = (char *)&lowater; ioctl(moxa_fd, I_STR, &ioc);

6. MSTATUS

This function is used to know the RS-232 line status (CTS/DSR/DCD).

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