Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mitsue From: mitsue@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mitsue Osanami) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Ser: device in GFA Basic Message-ID: <10113@uwm.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 21:04:28 GMT Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 14 Originator: mitsue@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Help, I am trying to write a program which uses the serial port in GFA Basic 3, but the only commands I can find which could use the serial port are input and inp(), these are no good because they stop the program until there is input from the serial port, I need to just check if there is anything there and keep going. EOF() and LOF() don't seem to work either, they always return 0. Please mail replys! Thanks! Mitsue