Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial Port Expansion
Message-ID: <609@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 18:19:52 GMT
References: <223@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Hi! It's me again. The voice crying in the wilderness, you know?

You're all solving something that isn't a problem.

What is wrong with specifying the device name and unit number to the
program that's using the serial port? You can hide it in a prefs type
program if you want, you know.

Perhaps the new serial port should be set up so that you can...

	(a) get the DeviceProc of SERx: (or a device assigned to it).
	(b) Send an ACTION_DISK_INFO.
	(c) Look in the volume entry (just like you do with console.device)
	    for an exec device message port.

AmigaDOS is a nameserver already. Let's not add another one!
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