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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Resources
Message-ID: <1947@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 14:39:57 GMT
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 > This is from a fellow with bad news feed.

So true.

 > If you want to claim the serial port (or parallel or some such) without
 > the supplied driver, you are supposed to use resources.lib to
 > get it exclusively. The RKM's are short of being crystal clear on how this
 > works. Anybody care to clarify how to claim the serial port for example?

Well, if you _must_ claim the serial port in non-shared mode, I suppose
you would use GetMiscResource() and FreeMiscResource, though I don't
know the details. If you do succeed, please post a warning about your
program hogging the serial port.

-larry

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