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Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Mass Storage
Message-ID: <2848.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 4 Jun 91 02:41:01 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 15
Message 23        Sun Jun 02, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 23:07 CDT
 
**FCS**  post to c10t15m1   1 Jun 91  **FCS**
 RB>Sometimes the program needs all of the data coming through the I/O 
 RB>stream, principally here meaning through an RS232 serial port. It's 
 RB>a serious handicap to professional engineers when the 
 RB>implementation arbitrarily discards data from the physical level of 
 RB>the I/O stream.
 Robert, you sure are right!  The serial input routine on the RTX  Evaluation
Board's ebforth will not accept a zero byte.  Thus, to  download an executable
image I had to work around that limitation  (annoying me, of course).  (I
changed all $00 and $01 bytes to an $01  byte followed by an $01 or an $02
byte -- all other bytes were passed  through without change as single bytes.)
Not that my comment has  anything in particular to do with your and Mitch's
discussion.
  -- Frank
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