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- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Serial port TXD
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0iox@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:14:36 PST
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 24
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- Is it possible to read the state of the TXD pin on the serial
- port? The (very useful) hardware manual shows that RXD can be
- read easily, but only ever shows TXD as an output.
-
- I am thinking of writing some kind of datascope program that
- monitors the RXD and TXD lines (which are wired up to a serial
- cable running between two other devices), and to see both
- directions at once I need to be able to read TXD somehow. The
- other alternative, which given the cost of such things etc is a
- bit undesirable, is to hook the RXD up to the normal serial port,
- and the TXD to the RXD of a second serial port.
-
- Currently I've only got one Amiga, but I'd like to write this for
- an A4000/A1200 class machine, mostly because I want to use a HIRES
- display without losing CPU time. So if no hardware manual will be
- published for these machines, will the RKMs cover how one goes
- about writing this sort of application? Using serial.device seems
- out of the question, because (a) it wants to do active things to
- other signal lines, (b) it's slow if I want to be able to monitor
- up to 57000, (c) it doesn't read TXD, and (d) it doesn't have
- timing information for each byte.
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