Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!aaron From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2400zi not Hayes compatible? :-( Message-ID: <1141@madnix.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 08:58:28 GMT References: <1115@madnix.UUCP> <25e176e0:4536.4comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery) Organization: ASDG Incorporated Lines: 49 In article <25e176e0:4536.4comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes: >>> Resp: 1 of 1 by *Masked* at MTUS5.BITNET >>>Author: [Leon D. Shaner] >>> Date: Tue Feb 13 1990 00:41 >>>Handshake 2.12a Does not work with this modem because they don't use a serial >>>device driver, they go directly to hardware. This problem is supposed to be >>>fixed soon. > >Thus , Perry , AS LISTED IN MY POST (try reading them ??) I am commenting >that , according to Leon D. Shaner Handshake 2.12a "they go directly to >hardware"... this is NOT the correct solution to the problem , and is >guarenteed to cause them a problem. Well, then, Leon D. Shaner is wrong. Handshake 2.12a is included on the disk we send out with each Dual Serial Board shipped. It works just fine. It also works on at least two other expansion serial boards/device drivers. This being the case, I strongly doubt that it goes 'directly to hardware', or that it's in any way Eric Haberfellner's fault that it doesn't work with Supra's internal modem. >I am supposed to apologize because someone bypassed the OS ??? I doubt it. No, but perhaps you should lend less credence to unsubstantiated claims, and not put blame on anyone based on them, in the future. >>IF< a newer verion of handshake has abandoned this and no longer goes to >hardware then great , the above flame does not apply to the new versions. As far as I know, that flame does not apply to _any_ versions. I know of only two commercial "terminal programs" which go directly to the serial hardware. In fact, I know of NO public domain or shareware "terminal programs" which do this, since there was a good piece of source code which showed how to "do it right" very early in the Amiga's lifespan. >Otherwise , enlighten me on how a thrid party driver will affect a program >that goes to hardware ???? It won't. That's why the original Online! and BBS-PC don't work on expansion ports. Platinum Online! does work fine, and I think BBS-PC may in a newer version. Then we'll be rid of any "going directly to hardware" in commercial programs, barring MIDI applications, which had good reason. - Aaron -- Aaron Avery, ASDG Inc. "A mime is a terrible thing to waste." -- Robin Williams ARPA: madnix!aaron@cs.wisc.edu {uunet|ncoast}!marque! UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!aaron