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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for vt100r2.8: external file-transfer programs
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Date: 25 Jan 88 16:59:20 GMT
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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.  

Oh yeah?  Just what do you base this on?  From what I've seen and tried, this
is incorrect.  You can open the serial.device in shared mode;  the sematics
of using this is up to you.  All of the users can write, as well as read.  The
device driver just fills the read requests in order.

Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming