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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Serial I/O
Message-ID: <4628@pkmab.se>
Date: 12 Dec 90 18:05:08 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.092137.5629@oilean.uucp> <1629@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <18801@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <18801@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Ah, but Kermit cheats.  It sends packets and then receives packets - it is 
>very much a synchonous protocol.
>
>The "real" answer is the use select(), poll() or some combination of
>vmin=0/vtime=0 termio magic.

But C-kermit does just that. Especially nowadays whit sliding windows and all
that. In protocol mode, that is. In terminal mode, it uses two separate
processes.

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