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From: phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay)
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Subject: Re: Serial port CLI
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 13:34:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 17 13:34:01 1986
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> 
> >Alvin Wen:
> >
> >1.2 lets you set buffer size through Preferences....
> >
> 
> 	This has nothing to do with the SER: device.  The SER: device
> does its own crazy input buffering.
> 
> 	Could somebody at C-A tell us why the SER: device was ever done
> that way?  It seems so ... stupid.
> 
> 					-Matt

SER: does basically "buffered" raw I/O to the serial.device...A AUX:
handler which allows a CLI to exist through a serial port does a bit more
work than RAW I/O. For one he as to handle requests in an async fashion
(always being able to handle input) ... The AUX: handler would also have
the responsability of setting the tasks signals when ctrl-c - ctrl-f are
pressed...not to mention the extra packets that are handled by a console 
handler.

I have a aux/con-handler in the works, and if only I had more time...

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