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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Rsconf in TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <1524@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 18:46:31 GMT
References: <374*hofer@urz.unibas.ch>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <374*hofer@urz.unibas.ch> hofer@urz.unibas.ch ("Remo Hofer") writes:
> Some documentation about TOS 1.4 says:
> Rsconf(-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1) does return the old values of USART registers.
> (That was true for all TOS versions, but wasn't documented)
> Rsconf(-2,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1) does return the old value for the baud rate.
> (That is only true for TOS 1.4)
> Does this mean that you can inquire all settings of the RS232 except
> the setting of the handshake? I think, it would be nice, if we could inquire
> the handshake settings. Any comments? Maybe somebody at Atari?
> 
> Remo Hofer
> hofer@urz.unibas.ch
> 
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That would have been a good idea, but it's too late for TOS 1.4.  Sorry. 
I regret that so much of TOS is done piecemeal, and I regret further
having contributed to that, but that's the way it is sometimes.

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