Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!ziggy!scotty
From: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vt100 v2.9
Message-ID: <143@ziggy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 04:03:26 GMT
References: <8812150227.AA09671@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3097@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Un*x Link,Frederick Md.
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In article <3097@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>horrible kludge that will turn any hope of organised and well behaved
>multiple serial ports into mush.
>-- 

unfortunately, the system already has a built in "feature" <SNARL in the
general direction of the guy who spec'd/wrote serial.device> which forces
existing software to be kludgy.  there is no way to test/manipulate the
modem control and handshake lines without going directly to the hardware.

AAAAARRRGGH!  FIX IT!!

  --Scotty