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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Controlling PC via serial port
Keywords: PC, serial port, terminal
Message-ID: <13256@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 25 Feb 89 03:55:53 GMT
References: <900@mtunf.ATT.COM> <13228@steinmetz.ge.com> <41aa98a9.11a9f@uhura.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <41aa98a9.11a9f@uhura.engin.umich.edu> ejd@caen.engin.umich.edu (Edward J Driscoll) writes:
| In article <13228@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:

| Right.  I don't use this command (it's a DOS command, BTW) but I
| seem to recall that it transfers IO to the serial port EXCLUSIVELY.
| One of Andrew's desired features was the ability to use the console
| also.

When you trimmed my reply you seem to have removed the part in which
this is discussed. Allow me to restore it, since it includes exactly the
information which you felt needed to be added to my posting:
> Warning: I typed this long and complex program in by hand, there may be
> typos. If you call it without an argument it will hang your system. This
> solution doesn't allow input for the keyboard after CTTY is redirected.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| -- 
| Ed Driscoll
| ejd@caen.engin.umich.edu


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