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From: mcli@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Machine hangs if serial drivers not closed
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Date: 27 Jun 89 13:38:45 GMT
References: <882@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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Reply-To: mcli@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling)
Organization: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
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In article <882@hydra.gatech.EDU> cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding) writes:
>I'm developing a terminal emulator.  A annoyance is that if my code
>crashes, RAMSDClose doesn't get called and the next RAMSDOpen will
>hang the machine.  From IM-II page 250: "Warning: The RAM Serial Driver
>must be closed with a call to RAMSDClose before your application terminates."
>Does anyone know any way around this?  It sure would speed the development
>process.

Could you post the source code that you wrote?  Just posting what the
problem is is not enough!!!!  Why don't you use the ROM driver?

Maurice


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