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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Serial port AUX: timeout?
Message-ID: <615@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 19:11:04 GMT
Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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Is there any way to make the AUX: device time out?  And return an error
code on timeout?  Since I don't have a battery backed up clock, and am not
going to buy one just yet, I am using my roomates UNIX-PC as a clock server.
I use

echo >aux: atime
copy aux: ram:setdate
execute ram:setdate

and his UNIX-PC has an account atime set aside which does nothing but return
the string "date dd-mmm-yy hh:mm:ss" followed by a return and a ^\ for me to
execute.  The problem is that the serial port is not always connected to the
Amiga, and when it isn't, the copy command just hangs there eating up my
precious memory space and tying up my serial port, so that I can't do anything
useful with my serial port, like talk to a modem with vt100.  What I would
like to be able to do is have some way for the copy command to time out, and
if it does, prompt the user to enter the date.  Is there any way I can do
this?

Thanks.
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