mrb@psueclb.BITNET (10/05/87)
Hello ----
While checking the new books on display at the library, I came across one
which may be of interest of many readers of this newsgroup:
Title: C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications
Author: Joe Campbell
Publisher: Howard W. sams & Company, 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis
Indiana 46268
Phone # for where to buy it: 800-428-SAMS
Copyright: 1987
ISBN: 0-672-22584-0
Lib. of Congr: 87-60387
Pages: 655
Cover Price: $22.95
SAMS #: 22584
The title is a bit misleading....although some of it is definitely oriented
towards the C programmer, it also contains loads of practical information
on ASCII, RS-232, protocols, UARTS, even a whole chapter (50 pages!!) on
the Hayes Smartmodem & derivatives. Plus lots more.....
I'm definitely going to buy a copy for myself. I'd recommend it without
hesitation to anyone programming or doing hardware with serial I/O and/or
modems.
M. R. Baker
MRB @ PSUECL
dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (10/07/87)
In article <830@PSUECLB> mrb@psueclb.BITNET writes: >Title: C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications >Author: Joe Campbell >...it also contains loads of practical information >on ASCII, RS-232, protocols, UARTS, even a whole chapter (50 pages!!) on >the Hayes Smartmodem & derivatives. I have this book and it is an outstanding instroduction to serial communications. But take the Hayes Smartmodem sections with a pinch of salt. Campbell does his best to try to make you buy a Hayes modem. The back cover blurb says Campbell works for a major modem manufacturer, but the book never identifies which one. Can you guess which one? Can I guess which one? If you worked for Multitech, would you write a book plugging Hayes modems? If you worked for Hayes and wrote a book plugging Hayes modems, would you consider it ethical not to tell the reader who you worked for? These are some unanswered questions that occurred to me as I read through the 50-odd pages in that book that sing praises of the Hayes modems. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi