Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: HyperCard bug (or maybe a "feature"?) with DIAL Message-ID: <6345@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 89 00:02:02 GMT Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 26 About a week ago I posted a message about using Serial XCMDs and HyperCard's dial command, but I only received one reply. So I'll try to restate my question (and give a new subject line). Here it is: If I use the 'dial' command to dial my modem, then try to use the Serial XCMDs that APDA distributes, the XCMD call puts an error message in the message box that states "SerGetBuf failed" or something like that. I eventually discovered that no XCMD call to use the serial port would be successful after that call to dial. My question: is it possible that HyperCard doesn't release the serial port after its dial? If this is the case, why would it do this? I found that after making a call to the dial function, the only way to get the Serial XCMDs to work is to quit HyperCard and get back into it again. So anyway, I gave up on using the dial command and tried to do it manually (but that caused other problems -- see my previous message). Thanks to Glenn Fisher for offering to send me a stack that uses the Serial XCMDs. Hopefully this will help me get something working. -Michael -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)