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-.Dd May 15, 1994
+.Dd August 31, 2025
.Dt COMCONTROL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm comcontrol
.Nd control a special tty device
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+The
+.Nm
+utility is deprecated and will be removed in
+.Fx 16.0 .
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar special_device
-.Op dtrwait Ar number
.Op drainwait Ar number
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -22,13 +26,6 @@ Only the superuser can change the settings.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
-.It Cm dtrwait Ar number
-Set the time to wait after dropping DTR
-to the given number.
-The units are hundredths of a second.
-The default is 300 hundredths, i.e., 3 seconds.
-This option needed mainly to set proper recover time after
-modem reset.
.It Cm drainwait Ar number
Set the time to wait for output drain
to the given number.
@@ -57,7 +54,6 @@ dialout devices
Originally part of cgd's com package patches, version 0.2.1, to
.Bx 386 0.1 .
Once controlled bidirectional capabilities.
-Little is left to control now
-that these capabilities are standard.
+Little is left to control now that these capabilities are standard.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Christopher G. Demetriou