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From: ans@well.UUCP (Anne Schweizer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion
Message-ID: <4990@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 21:19:46 GMT
References: <197@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <4918@well.UUCP> <38256@sun.uucp> <205@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: ans@well.UUCP (Anne Schweizer)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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As I've heard, in the new release of vt100 2.8 you will be able to
specify a unit number. I think the idea of unit number is the best way
for programmers and even for the user. Useres are not *STUPID*. If they
have more than one disk drive, they know which one is Unit 0 and
which one is unit 1 and so on. I think it's the same on serial ports.

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.