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From: minich@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Serial Driver Routines in Think C
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.043429.20081@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:34:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar05.185523.758@digibd.com>
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
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by merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy):
| chou@cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) writes:
|>You should use FSRead(-6, count, &buf) and FSWrite(-7, count, &buf) 
|>to read/write the modem port.  FSRead(-8,..) and FSWrite(-9,..) for
|>the printer port.
| 
| You should NOT use a literal -6, -7, etc.  Use the results of your
| OpenDriver() call!  Use the Comm Toolbox to get the port or at
| least make the string in OpenDriver() a resource, not a literal string.
| That way you'll have a hope of changing the port easily.

This is just a personal gripe, but I feel the need to vent some spleen:

Inside Mac VI damn well better be ready as soon, if not before, Sys 7 is
in users' hands. I can't afford to buy all the pieces that Apple offers
(Comm Toolbox, for one) that will be part of Sys 7, especially since I'll
have to get IM VI anyway for all the other goodies! I don't make any money
off my programming and I certainly can't afford any official developer
type status. Is Apple going to screw me by being slow on the release of
this info to the general public? I hope not. Can anyone from Apple comment
via this group or email? I hope so. :-)
  with all the hype about talking of Sys 7 so developers will have running
apps at release, plus the delays of the software, is it not reasonable to
have documentation RSN?
-- 
|_    /| | Robert Minich            |
|\'o.O'  | Oklahoma State University| "I'm not discouraging others from using
|=(___)= | minich@d.cs.okstate.edu  |  their power of the pen, but mine will
|   U    | - "Ackphtth"             |  continue to do the crossword."  M. Ho