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From: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion
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Date: 12 Jan 88 17:36:11 GMT
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In article <527@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Please don't kludge in another serial.device or another nameserver without
>first evaluating the possibility of using AmigaDOS as a name server... a
>task it performs admirably and which is one of the few areas in which it's
>an improvement on UNIX.
>
>"SER2: the only way to grow."

	Better yet is to include a new serial handler that uses the
name server to decide which port to use.
	Example: XSER:modem, etc.  It should also be mountable with a permanent
connection as well, such as MODEM: (equivalent to above).

     //	Randell Jesup			      Lunge Software Development
    //	Dedicated Amiga Programmer            13 Frear Ave, Troy, NY 12180
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