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From: nhj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Nick Jurascheck <JurascheckNH>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Serial Port Input Buffer
Message-ID: <361@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Aug 88 13:57:00 GMT
Organization: Birmingham University, England
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Does anybody out there know how to buffer serial input on a PC (or
100% compatible)?? 

The application is receiving frame numbers etc. from a video disc
player. I can initialise the port and send data to the player using
the Microsoft C int86() routine to call int 14h, but using the same
method to receive characters is unreliable, apparently because they
are not buffered. 

I don't always have time to read all comp.sys.ibm.* news, so apologies
if this has been covered before. Please mail any answers, I will
summarise to the net.

Thanks!