Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!iuvax!purdue!haven!grebyn!ckp
From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Question about multiple serial boards
Message-ID: <14137@grebyn.com>
Date: 14 Jan 90 02:46:22 GMT
References: <7970@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
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Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <7970@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>I understand that there are multi-port serial boards out there.
>I also understand that the device-level interfaces are essentially
>the same as serial.device (mod Open parameters).  My question is this:
>Do the current boards support 'AUX:' style devices?  That is,
>can I Open("AUX:1", MODE_???) and Open("AUX:2", MODE_???) and
>read/write these (in a blocking way, of course)?  (Or whatever the
>device names may be.)
>
	Due to it's limited usefulness, we (Checkpoint Technologies)
decided not to include an AUX:-style handler with the Serial Solution
board, but we do supply a utility which can make one. The ZapPort
utility on the driver disk automatically patches executable programs to
use our serial driver.  This works just fine on aux-handler as well, so
you can make a duplcicate for the Serial Solution card.