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- From: Ty_Sarna@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Ty Sarna)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- References: <37160@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26c beta (Nov 19 1992)
- Message-ID: <Ty_Sarna.0kr8@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:17:05 CST
- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
- Lines: 32
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- In <37160@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- writes:
- > I can't really imagine a good reason for not using th Open/Close method,
- > but I assume the author of Welmat did. That's basically the problem;
- > someone can always think of a reason (valid or not) to hit the hardware.
-
- #define MAJOR_GRIPE 1
-
- Because sometimes one of several programs that has the serial.device
- open needs to hang up with DTR (or do something else with DTR for some
- other custom hardware). People have been asking C= for _years_ to
- implement the "drop DTR" command that ASDG (i think) and a few others'
- serial.devices have for _years_. Since C= wont, they have no choice but
- to hit the hardware. Of course, that only works on the internal port,
- so that really doesn't address the problem for Welmat either.
-
- *PLEASE* implement this command in the internal and 2232 serial.devices.
- It wouldn't be at all hard, and it would be *EXTREMELY* useful to many
- people. Please! C'mon, pretty please?
-
- #whendef COMMAND_IMPLEMENTED /* requires 4D-C with temporal preprocessor */
- #define MAJOR_GRIPE 0
- #else
- /* leave defined! */
- #endif
-
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