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From: aries@skorpio.usask.ca (Aries Project)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Problems with serial device in shared mode
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.163629.9047@dvinci.usask.ca>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:36:29 GMT
Reply-To: aries@skorpio.usask.ca (Aries Project)
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Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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I am having trouble with what seems to be a bug in the serial device.  What
I am doing is opening up the serial device a second time in shared mode while
someone is online.  I'm almost positive I am doing things correctly (only
one incarnation of the device is active at a time).  The problem is that about
1/10 times, dtr is dropped when the serial device is opened the second time.
I can get around this by forcing dtr, but I don't want to.

This is not just a problem with my software.  Every program that I have tried
that uses the serial device in shared mode does the same this.

Any solutions??

		-Mike Oliphant