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From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion
Summary: That's how they do it with MultiTalk
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Date: 15 Jan 88 22:25:43 GMT
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In article <4990@well.UUCP> ans@well.UUCP (Anne Schweizer) writes:
>
>But there is another problem, older programs don't know anything about
>unit numbers higher than 0. So my idea is, when some try to open
>the serial.device unit 0 with OpenDevice() and this one is allocated by
>program, so the new serial.device (which knows alls other serial devices
>from a thing like a mountlist) should put up a requester which some
>gadgets (one for each serial devices) and let the user choose the
>unit.
>
>-Anne.

That's exactly what happens when you run MultiTalk, a program for the Mac
that allows several people to share several serial ports.  When any
application opens the serial device, you get a dialog box listing the
available ports on the network.  Similarly, in our case, the requester
would display a list of serial ports on the Amiga.


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