bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) (06/30/91)
In article <1991Jun30.040547.12454@eos.arc.nasa.gov> phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Phil Stone) writes:
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=-Excuse me if this is a FAQ, but what support, if any, does 2.0
=-have for the A2232 multi-serial board?
Actually this is a very GOOD question, and I'm glad someone finally got around
to asking it. I hope 2.0 supports multiple serial ports in an intelligent way,
because 1.3 sure doesn't. It assumes that there is only one serial port, so one
can't set different default parameters for different ports. This is a major
pain when one has, say, a modem that uses RTS/CTS handshaking and a printer that
uses XON/XOFF, and at a different baud rate. It would be criminal for C= not to
support preexisting hardware properly in an OS that's still uder development.
I guess the question is: what does the 2.0 Preferences structure look like?
I've been meaning to write a small hack that patches OpenDevice() to allow
separate defaults to be specified for all the serial ports via a config file,
but haven't gotten around to it yet. Feel free to beat me to it, everyone.