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- >>>>> "John" == John Hess <johnhess@cris.com> writes:
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- John> At 09:10 PM 3/12/96, WILLIAM J. MILLER wrote:
- >> OK, all that is needed, is a program (could act like an
- >> extension), that wrote the data to a comm port. It doesn't
- >> need to be built into E/x, it could be emulated. The COM ports
- >> are always going to be at the same addresses. All ARDI (or
- >> someone) has to do is write a program that can run inside E/x
- >> and intercept the calls out to the COM ports, and rebroadcast
- >> them.
- >>
- >> I CANNOT write this, do to the fact, that I don't know C/C++,
- >> or have any clue as to Mac programming, or any Mac to do it on.
- >>
- >> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
- >>
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- John> Far be it from me to attempt an oversimplification; but,
- John> would it help if one could use the FOSSIL as a (more or
- John> less) standardized communication interface? Don't know how
- John> many platforms it will run on; but, I know it works on DOS,
- John> OS/2 and WIN(95).
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- It might. We'll evaluate our options after E2 has shipped and use
- what gives us the best performance for the least amount of work.
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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