Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nosc!crash!alen
From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Serial line TSR - help needed please?
Summary: tried and tried but can't do it
Keywords: serial TSR how nasty DOS stuff
Message-ID: <6517@crash.cts.com>
Date: 24 Dec 90 16:40:12 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 18

A friend of mine is having REAL trouble writing a TSR that reads a serial
port (at interrupt time) and stores chars in memory until a NL is read,
when it dumps the line to a file. The data rate is 300 baud max and
max 80 char lines are received no more than once every 3 mins.

He is desperate but I know nothing about serious DOS programming!!
The application he is writing is non-commercial, he will make no
money from it (nor will anyone else).

Has anyone out there got a snippet of program that he can "borrow".

(he wants to run this TSR so as not to affect "normal" DOS functions
like word processing etc).

TIA (much)
--alen the Lisa Slayer (trying to turn a SPARC into a flame)
  alen%shappy.uucp@crash.cts.com (a mac+ uucp host - what a concept!!)
  alen@crash.cts.com