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From: jesup@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports
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Date: 15 Jan 88 21:31:59 GMT
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Posted: Fri Jan 15 16:31:59 1988

In article <530@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
...
>Also... even if the existing handler isn't guaranteed to work for ALL
>devices, is there some way of making it work for the serial.device and
>to get people writing new devices to work in concert.

	What existing handler are you taking about?????

>The idea of having so many disparate name spaces on the machine is beginning
>to gibe me the heebie-jeebies. How hard would it have been to make all the
>devices accessible through AmigaDOS? That way you could ALWAYS map ports
>around just by using Assign.

Acutally, my latest proposals for serial port expansion include a new handler,
XSER:.  This would tend to unify the device-level name-mapping for serial
ports and the dos-level file-naming.  You would open XSER:modem, for example,
and the XSER: device would have the name-mapper get it a free serial port
with a modem attached.  This would even allow things like list to tell
you which names exist, and allow assign to work.

P.S.  I'll x-post this to Bix.

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