eric@plus5.UUCP (Eric W. Kiebler) (04/11/85)
The recent comment about mac{put,get} brought to mind a note I should have posted *long* ago. If you want to run mac{get,put} on an altos box, you have to do it through port5 (I think there may be another port that will work, too). The bottom line is that buffers are expensive, and having lots of them so every line can blast at 9.6kb or faster all the time didn't seem worthwhile. So, altos only allocates sufficient buffers on port5 (and, like I said, maybe another). For output there is no problem, but for input you have to use this port, period. Cheers, eric -- ..!ihnp4!wucs!plus5!eric ..!ihnp4!plus5!eric (314) 725-9492