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From: robinson@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: RKM and serial reads
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Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 16:46:30 EDT
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Ok, I was wrong about the Addison-Wesley RKM, but what are flames for?

In any case, Libraries and Devices still hasn't appeared at any local 
bookstores (not even the one that specializes in computer books--they even
knew what I was talking about with having to look it up).

But that doesn't really matter to me anymore.  I found someone that had 
received three RKM's from Commodore by mistake, and now I am the happy owner
of one of them.

So, now that I am fully documented, I no longer have any qualms about asking
stupid questions on the net for fear that the answer is obvious.  The first
stupid question:

	 What is the officially sanctioned method for determining how many 
     characters are available for reading in the serial input buffer?

I seem to recall someone mentioning that this value was returned in one of
the error fields, but this doesn't seem to me to be officially sanctioned.

Thanks in advance.
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