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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Multiple Serial Ports (Re: vt100 v2.9)
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Date: 16 Dec 88 08:52:53 GMT
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In article <3102@sugar.uu.net| peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
|In article <14049@oberon.USC.EDU|, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|about a terminal program that lets you specify the unit number for the
|serial device, but not the driver.
|
|| So harware guys, when are we going to get multiple serial devices?
|| The software is ready.
|
|No it's NOT. "serial.device" doesn't support more than one UNIT. Another
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|manufacturer will have to call their driver "rs232.device" or "myserial.device"
|or something like that.
|
|Anything they do to make "serial.device" accept multiple unit numbers (map
|their memory in to some magic place, for example, or patch serial.device
|to their code) is going to be (as I mentioned) a horrible kludge.

Sorry, but I know for a fact that we will very likely see "somebody's" 
serial.device with multiple unit numbers.  That one will work with 
A-Talk III. Serial drivers that have different names will also work with
A-Talk III. One will be able to select them with:

DEVICE=name

such as:

DEVICE=modem.device

also on the ToolTypes Info.  I was planning to post the code to do this,
but unfortunately this is modified from a MANX library source file, wbparse.c,
which is copyrighted and not redistributable.  Sorry.  It shouldn't be
that difficult to figure it out, even if one doesn't have the sources.  The
whole thing is less than 20 lines of code.  So, to repeat again, are any
harware guys ready to deliver a multiserial.device?  ASDG?  CMI?

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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