cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (01/22/86)
One of the deficiencies of PC-DOS is that it does not support COM1 and COM2 (the RS-232C ports) in a manner consistent with the rest of the devices on the system. You can't redirect stdout or stdin to a serial port and have it work. Our requirements are for a installable device driver for the serial ports that use XON/XOFF and appear like any other device to PC-DOS. Do you know of one in the public domain, or does anyone have any experience with any of the commercially produced device drivers? (For example, the driver sold by TextSet.) Right now we are using the Blaise Computing serial I/O package. It works, but it is nowhere near as convenient to use as a standard PC-DOS device driver, and I'm spend far too much time figuring out why one minor little change HERE causes it to stop reading characters THERE.