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From: dave@tygra.UUCP (David Conrad)
Subject: Re: port array
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing System, Detroit, MI
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 08:33:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.083354.9484@tygra.UUCP>
References: <1991Mar29.131326.17074@cs.umu.se>

In article <1991Mar29.131326.17074@cs.umu.se> dvlhma@cs.umu.se (Henrik Magnusson) writes:
>I'm not missing the manuals, in Tp6.0 the little information that is 
>avilable is on page 253 in the Programmer's Guide. The reason i asked
>is that the description of port and portW arrays isn't enough. So I
>thought that there could be any kind people outthere with the information.
>And i got to.
>(or a part of it).
>
>And why do i write this?? I don't like to be "called" a pirate, when i've
>spent 1600 SEK ($275) on tp6.0.
>

I'm sorry you thought I was calling you a pirate.  I wasn't.  I said that
posting parts of the manuals makes it easier for pirates, but that I thought
that neither the poster nor the person he was responding to were pirates.
I apologize for the apparent attack on you, it was my fault for not being
clear enough.

The port arrays allow access to the I/O ports, which is necessary to drive
peripheral devices directly.  If you aren't doing so, then you don't need
the port arrays.  (BTW, I thought I also provided this information in my
article.)

David Conrad
dave%tygra@sharkey.cc.umich.edu
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