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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (James D. Mackraz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial Port Communications
Message-ID: <1381@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 15:07:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 15:07:38 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jul-86 01:44:47 EDT
References: <148@umd-ua.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
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In article <148@umd-ua.UUCP> jwabik@umd-ua.UUCP (Jeff Wabik) writes:
>Here's a question for all you Amiga types.  I just got my machine about 
>a week ago, and since that time I've been trying to connect an old
>"dumb terminal" to the serial port -- just to dump things to and 
>play with..  In any case, I can't get the setup to work.  I've been 
>in preferences a set the correct baud rate, and I've made sure that
>my terminal works correctly, and I've made sure that the Amiga pins
>on the serial port that are "hot" are not connected to the terminal,
>and etc..   This doesn't seem to be a problem of baud/etc, since I
>get no glitches on the terminal.   Is there something obvious (or hidden)
>that I'm missing here ??  

I hope you get some real help from somebody, but I want to be sure you
know about kprintf(), which is a little printf() which goes out serial
at 9600 baud.  Note that most c-compilers promote shorts and char to 
32 bits, so you have to do kprintf("number: %ld\n", number);

There is some getchar() kind of thing in there so you can pause, waiting on
a key at the tty, but most people just call Debug() which runs romwack out
to your tty.  Debug() returns and your program proceeds when you type ^D.

Not the answer, but something everyone should know.

					jimm