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From: hgschmie@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Henning Schmiedehausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Software implementation of MNP protocol...
Message-ID: <1991May9.181517.22092@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 9 May 91 18:15:17 GMT
References: <19768@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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In <19768@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V) writes:


>	Does anyone know where is to be found a software implementation of the
>MNP protocol for the Amiga? There's such an animal for IBMs, and I know such a
>thing would be relatively easy to implement on the Amiga (just look at the CMD
>utility). This would be greatly appreciated if anyone knows where I can find
>one.

>	Failing that, if anyone just happens to come across the source code for
>said protocl on another machine, tell me where to find it.
Hi!

I once tried to write such a driver, but the main problem is, that
MNP5 is a syncronous protocol, this means that there are between a
number of bytes (16 I think) no start- amnd stop-bits. The Amiga 
Serial device (and Hardware I think) does not support any kind of
sync transfers. So it would be *VERY* difficult (only device) or
(Hardware) even impossible to write such a device. :(

	Ciao
		Henning

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