Serial device error

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From: Matthew Donaldson
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 06:02

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Hi.  I have a B2000 at home, and sometimes connect a terminal to the serial
port.  One of the things I have going on the terminal is an editor (comes in
useful sometimes, besides being an extra screen).  To access the serial
port, I open serial.device, etc, as described in KRM, (rather than opening
SER:).  My problem is this:  when I send off a read request, with DoIO,
it occasionally returns an error status.  This status has always been 6.
RKM says that 6 is "SerErr_LineErr", or something equally cryptic.  Does
anyone know what this error really means?

		Thanks in advance.

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Matthew Donaldson
matthew@cs.ua.oz.au
Operating Systems Group
Computer Science Department
University of Adelaide

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