[net.micro.pc] need help with interrupt driven serial I/O

zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) (09/30/85)

I'm trying to write a program which, among other things, must have
buffered input from one of the serial ports.  I figured that the way
to do that was to hook my own buffering routine into the "Serial
Device #1" interrupt (INT 0CH).  So I used function 25H to "Set
Interrupt Vector" and transmitted a character to serial port #1
and...

...nothing happened.  My interrupt service routine was never called.
The rest of the program continued to run normally but nothing else
happened.

After I got over my disappointment and read the book (MS-DOS Version
2 Programmer's Utility Pack) some more I decided to write to
net.micro.pc in the hopes that someone out there can supply an
explaination and (with luck) a fix.

To be a bit more concise, why didn't my interrupt service routine
get called and what do I do to enable interrupt driver serial input?

Thanks,
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