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From: chesley@goofy.apple.com (Harry Chesley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problems with Apple's Hypercard serial XCMDs
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Date: 21 Jun 89 22:18:48 GMT
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In article <2447@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu 
(Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes:
> I checked the source code, and only recvUpTo actually strips control
> characters.

Oops. You're right and I meant to mention that in my previous reply and 
forgot: most of the configuration options work only with recvUpTo, not 
with recvChars. recvChars was intended to be a very low level, simple 
interface to the port, while recvUpTo is the primary high level, fancy 
interface. Among very many other features, recvUpTo lets you set a 
time-out so you don't get hung up waiting for input.