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Article #6552Re: WORD -- GROSS BUGS (?)
From: bright
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 16:45
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 16:45
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In article <753@kontron> cramer@kontron writes: >Amen to the XON/XOFF problem. PC-DOS provides NO built-in XON/XOFF support. >I would very much like to have an installable device driver for PC-DOS that >allowed a C program to open COM1 or COM2 just like any other device, but >no one seems to build one. PC-DOS also doesn't do interrupt driven I/O to COM1. This makes it impossible to write 'well-behaved' programs when you need interrupted I/O instead of polled I/O. The BIOS doesn't support it either, which is a mystery since all the hardware support for it is in place, and it's easy code to write.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bright From: bright@dataio.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: WORD -- GROSS BUGS (?) Message-ID: <997@dataioDataio.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-May-86 12:45:07 EDT Article-I.D.: dataioDa.997 Posted: Wed May 14 12:45:07 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 12:13:28 EDT References: <1371@unc> <753@kontron> Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 11