[net.micro.amiga] Carrier and a message for the boys at AMIGA!

joseph@garfield.UUCP (06/09/86)

I need a good way to take a look at the RS232C port.
I wish to see if there is a carrier and is the phone ringing yet.
Any way you know how to do this from AmigaBasic please let 
me know. 

Notice for the people who have a say in the next AmigaBasic!
You are to dam picky in the way you have to type in a program.
What is he talking about you may ask?
"while eof<>-1" will not work but "while eof <> -1" will work.
Even on a 64 you don't have to space every thing.
The other big thing that bugs me about this AmigaBasic is that
they put the name "Amiga" in the name of the basic. It will make
one thing that it takes use of one of the Amiga's best things
MULTI-TASKING! No, multi-tasking to be found in this basic! 
Even if it did have Multi-Tasking the Basic sucks up most all
memory on the go. With my 512K I should have no problem running
5-8 programs at the one time. (right?) Wrong, Only two SAD!!!
programs. Now don't get me wrong the AmigaBasic is one of the
best Basics on the go today. My Problem is that it has left out some of the things you 
feel should be there. 
P.S. You should have had the EOF tell me when the carrier is dropped as
it is the end of a file of sorts.

Joseph Dawson
4 Cork Place
St. John's, Nf
A1B 2W4
1-(709)-753-0196 {Data 300,n,8,1}