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From: andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Picking a terminal emulator
Message-ID: <1480@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 09:57:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 12 09:57:46 1986
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References: <232@neoucom.UUCP> <18100001@ico> <253@pttesac.UUCP> <1474@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <1602@well.UUCP>
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Keywords: amiga terminal emulation

In article <1602@well.UUCP> swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) writes:
>In article <1474@amiga.amiga.UUCP> andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel) writes:
>>1) Use the SDCMD_QUERY for the serial device, to find out how many
>>   characters the device has waiting, then get exactly that number.
>>
>
>Do you mean that I can open up my ports to the serial device and do an
>SDCMD_QUERY without having done a SendIO or DoIO first, and it will tell
>me how many characters it has in its read buffer?
>
Well, actually you send the SDCMD_QUERY to the serial device by a
DoIO or SendIO.  This is generally how you communicate with devices
on the Amiga.

>The real question is, what is the maximum baud rate for which AmigaTerm 
>doesn't need flow control?
>
>Steve Walton

It was measured at between 9100 and 9200 baud.

			andy finkel
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