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From: carroll@unirot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Console Question
Message-ID: <407@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 23:38:43 EST
Article-I.D.: unirot.407
Posted: Wed Mar 11 23:38:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 03:14:01 EST
Reply-To: carroll@unirot.UUCP (mark carroll)
Distribution: world
Organization: Public Access Unix, Piscataway NJ
Lines: 38
Keywords: console device speed and translation
Summary: How to Translate Raw Console, COnsole Speed


   I have a couple of questions for the net:

     A> How to I translate the raw keycodes being sent when I set my
       IDCMPs to include RAWKEY?

     B> In trying to use a console device directly, by setting up IOStdReqs
       for the window, and giving the pointer in the io_data in the OpenDevice
       call, when I actually use the device, the speed is unbelievably slow.
       The code Im testing it with is a simple loop that sends the IOReq
        async, ( SendIO() ), and then checks the IO until it completes, then
       does a DoIO to write the inputted char to the screen. The throughput
       ends up being much less than that from a 300 bps modem. Why is it so
       slow? What is the console device doing? When I use the IDCMPs with
       VanillaKey, the speed is about 800% higher! With the same basic loop!

     C> As long as Im posting, Ill try my old Serial problem AGAIN. How
       can I check the carrier( Pin 5 serial port) on a modem without 
       directly looking at the memory location associated with the port?

          Oh, Incidentally, the compiler is Lattice 3.10, WB 33.37, kickstart
     1.2, Im not sure what version number on the kick. Its release 1.2.. and
     I looked at the dissasembled source for B>.. no ridicoulous quantities of
     code, or crazy loops or anything.

        Thanks in Advance,
            <MC>

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================================================================================ <MC>= Mark C. Carroll, Rutgers University Student, Part Time Programmer for
 Computer Systems and Methods of Somerville, NJ : (201)725-1373
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