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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- References: <37160@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Message-ID: <paulk.2b24@terapin.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 07:48:59 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- > Closing the serial.device drops DTR;
-
- > I can't really imagine a good reason for not using th Open/Close
- > method
-
- It's not reliable with shared access. Unless you make sure you are
- the only program that can get at the serial port, some other program
- may keep DTR raised. I remember running across this problem when
- trying to make some hack to filter data that came through the port or
- something.
-