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Hi All,

I'm having some trouble with a piece of software which commuicates between
the Linux Box and testing machine I have. At the request of the test
machine, the program reads a file from disk and sends it back down the
serial line. This works fine some of the time. Every now and the though the
program starts using more and more CPU and does not respond to requests
from the test machine. Killing the program and restarting it has no effect,
however if I reboot the Linux PC then everything is fine again.

The question: Is there a way to reset the serial port similar to a reboot
without rebooting the PC.

Thanks in advance

Dave

Yes. look into to "stty"

to see the settings you can do a "stty </dev/modem"

you should be able to set many parameters too.

OR

Use "kermit" and issue serial commands. If a modem is involved
you could "ATZ" it.