Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!dyon From: dyon@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Dyon Anniballi) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: RKM and serial reads Message-ID: <757@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 15:16:03 EDT Article-I.D.: batcompu.757 Posted: Mon Jul 28 15:16:03 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jul-86 07:39:15 EDT References: <15028@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: dyon@batcomputer.UUCP (Dyon Anniballi) Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 10 If you look in part 2 of the RKM(the one with all the appendices) in the section that describes all the devices, and find the part on the serial you will find a SCMD_QUERY command. It works just like the SCMD_READ and SCMD_WRITE, and returns the number of unread chars in the buffer in one of the fields(I don't remember which one). Hope this helps. p.s. It might not be SCMD, but it is some similar combination of letters. I don't have the RKM in front of me right now. -jr