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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial Ports
Message-ID: <3384@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 4 Feb 89 13:33:48 GMT
References: <1164@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <1164@hub.ucsb.edu>, hbo@nobbs.ucsb.edu writes:
> Are you planning to provide
> a patch to each such program, or do you intend to support Commodore's standard
> as it emerges?

Any program that uses the serial port should already be written to allow for
multiple device names and port numbers. Commodore's "standard" is a kludge
to allow for old broken programs that don't do this. I hope that developers
are as put off by this as I am and boycott it.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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