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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Modem Driver via C
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.043718.25044@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 04:37:18 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) writes:

>   Would someone PLEASE mail me some sort of instructions for using the GS/OS
>Modem Driver from C (ORCA/C)? I'm in the midst of reinventing the wheel for
>school (640x200x4/16 text and line grafix term). I'm going to talk a friend
>into doing the same from GW BASIC on a Tandy. Thanx!

Well, if the modem driver had a fixed name like .MODEM you would be able to
issue an fopen(".modem", "rwb") or something like that. I just checked
with SysInfo and mine calls itself .DEV6 instead.

The GS/OS reference (out in stores! caltech bookstore got it and I snarfed one
already -- good bye beta binder) explains the application side of things. It
is fairly easy to write generic C functions that act as interfaces to the O/S
(I can give you sample code if you'd like), but I haven't done anything with
character devices yet, to be honest.

Jawaid, you listening? Surely your experience from 'TelCom program of the Gods'
can help this person?

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu