Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vt100 v2.9
Message-ID: <3134@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 22 Dec 88 03:04:37 GMT
References: <8812150227.AA09671@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3097@sugar.uu.net> <2318@cadovax.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <2318@cadovax.UUCP>, keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
> In article <3097@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Yes, any terminal program should have options to let you specify the
> >device name and unit number. One of these days someone will actually come
> >out with a serial port card for the Amiga, and people will want to use it.

> >Because if you don't the guys who build the thing will implement some
> >horrible kludge that will turn any hope of organised and well behaved
> >multiple serial ports into mush.

> You mean like with an ASSIGN SER: COM1:  ?  :-)

Won't work. If you want to use the serial device at all effectively you
have to open "serial.device" with unit=0. You can't go via the handler...
there's just so much that you can't get to. Yes, this is unfortunate. It's
the result of layering a mess like DOS on top of the Amiga Exec.

I thought of this one, too, about a year ago. It just doesn't work.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net