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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial port AUX: timeout?
Message-ID: <7923@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 89 19:44:37 GMT
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> There's no nice way to do it from the command line.  I'd write a C program
> using WaitForChar() to do it.  Sorry.

Note that the second argument to WaitForChar() is in *microseconds*,
not ticks, and that the Delay(0) bug can bite here too, so use a delay
of at least something like 45000L.

-tom