[net.micro.amiga] 4 Amiga users in Switzerland need help.

claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) (12/06/85)

We are four People here in Zurich who bought an Amiga:

   Rene Degen (ethz!degen)              Amiga 512K + Monitor 1080 
   Claudio Maranta                      Amiga 256K
   Claudio Nieder (ethz!claudio)        Amiga 512K + Disk Drive
       (BITNET:K538912@CZHRZU1A)
   Markus Schaub (ethz!schaub)          Amiga 512K + Monitor 1080

We got the 'normal' System with ABasiC, and only the 'standard' Manuals
"Introduction to the Amiga" & "ABasiC Manual".

Since we've got no possibility to get any other Manuals we would be
happy to get some help through the net. 

The first Problem comes from Claudio Nieder:

I'd like to do Packet-Radio with my Amiga. I have a TAPR-TNC, and should
have a terminal program for my Amiga. I tried to write a simple program
in BASIC, but I encountered several difficulties:

1. I tried OPEN "I",1,"SER:" and OPEN "O",2,"SER:". This works well for
   output, but the GET #1,K$ didn't work like the normal GET from a
   keyboard. It hanged until 128 characters came in  through the serial
   port. I didn't find out how this buffering can be disabled or whether
   it is possible at all.
   

2. I tried POKEing and PEEKing around, trying to find the serial port.
   The only thing I found, was that the data comes in through &HC00019
   and that status is at &HC00018. I didn't find, how to send data or
   how to setup the port for the correct baudrate... 

It would be nice if anybody could help us.