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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: Using the sio ports with a Modem
References: <CBHLwJ.737@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1993Aug9.213957.18706@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <CBq5Ct.6LH@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <1993Aug15.231636.17182@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 19:03:39 GMT
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <CBq5Ct.6LH@flatlin.ka.sub.org> bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
>> [ about FAS, which works well ]
>Then port FAS and be done with it; I'll assume that it doesn't require that
>consumers rewrite the serial driver portions of applications like uucp, and
>if that is the case, iut already obeys the semantics I described with
>reference to the SVR3/SVR4 serial drivers... ie: it doesn't break the
>existing practice codified in hundreds of applications.

There exist working solutions, like at Sun or NeXT - existing uucp
code runs on these boxes, so following thoses examples need no big
rewrites on the user side.
I don't know the SVR4 code, but I know of working BSD-code, so why not
use this as example.

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