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From: smp@myamiga.UUCP (Steve Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Multi serial/parallel ports
Message-ID: <77.2727B691@myamiga.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 90 02:55:04 GMT
Organization: The Siberian Amiga --- Sault Ste. Marie, MI
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 In reference to <52902.656747372@atronx.UUCP>, written by Russel McOrmond.
 
 RM> We're talking about 10 lines of code Total, something that I myself have 
 RM> done many times.  Commodore seems to refuse to do it on Religious grounds.
 
 I assume you were referring to the dropping of DTR signal?
 
 What would the odds be of getting ahold of the sources for the serial.device
 and actually writing this in?  I agree with you that it NEEDS to be in there,
 because the open-close gig does NOTHING if someone else had the serial port
 opened.  
 
 Suppose you had a few tasks up and running.  One that was watching for dialins
 on the serial port, and one that was calling out.  The one calling out
 wouldn't adversely affect the one waiting for calls by messing around with the
 DTR, but the one waiting for calls would stop the dialout program from
 dropping the DTR using open-close techniques.

 RM>  (IE: UNIX has this *BUG*, so AmigaDos needs it too ;-)

 It's not a bug, it's a feature! =^)



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