Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for vt100r2.8: external file-transfer programs
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Date: 24 Jan 88 18:50:54 GMT
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Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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>Don't open the serial port in
>shared mode, that means the same as opening a file shared, multiple 
>readers, no writers.  

NOW I find that out :-(. This harkens back to an earlier posting of mine
about opening the serial port for I/O from both C and Basic at the same
time. The C end is mostly trial and error for the moment, based on a lot
of serial port parameters (like SERF_SHARED, above) which aren't explained
in any detail.

As for external file transfer protocols, do you know if it is possible to do
this using Diga! as it exists now? The emulations are seperate tasks and there
is a defined format for creating them, but I've never heard anything about
adding extra file transfer protocols. Seems like the natural way to implement
them given Diga!'s open-ended design.

John
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