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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fish Disk #13 and AmigaBasic
Message-ID: <867@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 04:35:51 GMT
References: <42600011@uicsrd> <4649@well.UUCP> <2131@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <2154@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Ever try to use the !!$$@@$! serial port in AmgiaBasic?


AmigaBasic, in a word, stinks.  MetaComCo ABasiC isn't exactly
great either, but it doesn't Guru randomly.  One thing that is
critical is handling the serial port, and ABasiC does it right, er..
at least acceptibly I suppose.

I finally got around to downloading and unpacking Drew's
Aux-Handler.  Thanks Drew!!  Works fine with ABasiC.  Now I can
finish prototyping my Midi Librarian.  Dag-gone AmigaBasic not only
won't work at buad rates greater than 9600, but aslo strips any non
ascii characters!  Grrr.

Have a nice holiday season everybody!
--Bill