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Friends,
This may be more UNIX than NeXT, but here goes.

I've been trying to get two way communication between a cheapy slave computer
and to a Next through their serial ports to shuffle data back and forth.

On the slave I can easily check the ports status, and if there is data,
I can read it off byte by byte. Writing is also smooth.  There are
good routines to make sure it doesn't get hung. 

But on the Next, it seems much harder.  I simply thought by opening
a file being /dev/cua, I could check the ports status via feof().
But alas, it always says theres more data there, and so it continially
gets hung on reading after the lasst charachter is read.  I tried all 
sorts of variations with the cable, conecting various permutaions of 
RTS/CTS and so on, but to no avail.

In sum, the Next has no trouble reading the data from the port.
But its only problem is that it can not find a correct answer 
for the status of the port.

Is there a simple solution or a better way?

I'll sumarize if theres enough interest.

Thanks,
Victor
v_white@janus.ece.wisc.edu