info@pro-carolina.UCSD.EDU (Info Apple) (07/29/87)
Re: polled mode for TIC request A future version of TIC will support externally loaded drivers to support non-standard serial ports such as the Apple Cat or Micromodem. I'll be publishing the specs for the drivers so anyone can write one that needs one. By the same token you'll be able to pretty easily have a non-interrupt driven driver since the driver will be responsible for the interrupt support for a particular port type. If it looks like this driver version will be delayed though I'll see about adding an option to use polled mode instead of interrupt mode for those situations that require this. Re: auto-selection of Ymodem (1024 byte) block transfers TIC will defeat Ymodem and AE/MouseTalk/ProDOS mode transfers on sends if you select the "X"modem protocol instead of the "Y"modem or "P"roDOS modes. The receive mode is determined by the other end of the transfer but you usually select this yourself when you tell the host how you would like a file to be sent to you.