<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale@acarver.net><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, December 6, 2014 5:17:56 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Configure serial port settings at boot<br><div><br></div>Ok, thanks to Jim, JD and Chris, rc.local appears to be the way to go<br>and is relatively easy.<br><div><br></div>I'm not using a script. This is for lpd with a label printer attached<br>to the serial port so technically the port is always in use. The<br>problem is that a cooked mode serial port will eat some of the bitmap<br>data and cause much confusion for the printer when its bitmap suddenly<br>vanishes. Eight bit raw mode is all the printer needs to make sure the<br>labels print properly. I can't configure the port within lpd other than<br>the baud rate so I have to change the mode externally with stty.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You may want hardware flow control. I've been down this road many times, but it was back in the 90s.</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>