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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PLEXUS UNIX BOX and Amiga
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Date: 8 Oct 90 10:35:47 GMT
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In <8032@gollum.twg.com> David S. Herron wrote in reply to Ralph Seguin:
[Difficult to port DNET to SysV UNIX because you need select() to poll a]
[serial port without hanging until the next character is received.      ]

On SysV, you might fork a coprocess to read the serial port, then
communicate with it through a pipe opened with O_NDELAY.  There are
probably about 5 other more-or-less reasonable ways to do it.  This
should not be an insurmountable obstacle...

This is arguably not an Amiga topic, but if it will get DNET supported
under SysV, it will benefit a lot of Amiga users.  I've redirected
discussion to comp.sys.amiga.tech since this has nothing to do with
hardware.

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