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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Serial Device(s)
Message-ID: <386@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 89 01:04:12 GMT
References: <109829@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <0048.AA0048@julie> <3937@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <3937@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <0048.AA0048@julie>, mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson) writes:
>>   And of course "dir AUX:amiga/1200/8n1/2317144" --- at this point
>
>AAAAAAAAARRGH!!!!!!
>
>I'll tell you what. *you* design the interface, then I'll find a modem it
>won't work with. THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO PUT ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT THE
>SERIAL PORT IS CONNECTED TO.

Well, Michael's example does look a bit extreme. It's a different way
of looking at things. I thought that "con:400/600/200/100/Title" was
pretty bizarre, too.

But it's not necessarily bad. The way to make Michael's example work
is to have some kind of modem server task that the AUX device handler
calls upon in order to get parameters like phone numbers to work right.

In other words, it's really just a question of syntax. And although
I'm still unsure whether I like it, I think we could make it work.

I do agree with Peter that the AUX device handler itself should *NOT*
make assumptions about the kind of modem it's talking to. Nor even
whether or not it *is* talking to a modem (until someone tells it so).
	Doug
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