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Subject: Atari Standard Languages -- Rs232 Handling?
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Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 00:23:46 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 29 00:23:46 1987
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Hello;
     
  On a usual boring North Dakota evening (although we won the NCAA Hockey
  Championship tonight!), I was thinking about some of the things that I
  had planned long ago.  One of them was starting an ST BBS.  Purusing the
  latest literature (and my memory), I came up with ZIP in the way of P-D
  BBS ware, so I resigned myself to writing my own.
  Well, that's not really a problem, although the language of choice is.
  Personal Pascal would be nice, although I have yet to get a GEM program
  running with any regularity, so I figured I might as well give ST BASIC
  a shot (call me a sadist).  Guess what?  Absolutely _no_ way to read the
  serial port!  Questions:
     
  1) In the "New" ST Basic, will such support be made available?
  2) When (if ever) will such a "New" Basic be forthcoming?
  3) *the clincher* At what price?
  4) What bright guy wrote the manual?  I love the commands which are in-
     cluded in the list of commands, but which are left out of the lang-
     uage :-)
     
  5) (As an aside, what happened to Alex?  Shin surgery?  ;-)
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a.d. jensen                           "Forty below keeps out
Department of Geography                the riff-raff."
University of North Dakota                -- North Dakota State Motto
Grand Forks, ND
     
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