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- SerialPatch V2.000
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-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- This program is feedbackware! This means that all rights are
- reserved, because I may possibly release future versions as
- shareware. But now, you can use SerialPatch without any charge,
- the only thing you *HAVE* to do, is to "register".
-
- So I can see which of my programs are used most and can give them
- a higher priority in my time-schedule. :-))
-
-
- WHAT IS IT
-
- This program is for you guys, needing a special "serial.device"
- for your multi-serial-card. Some programs do not allow to specify
- the device to use for accessing the serial-hardware. This is
- "fixed" by SerialPatch. SerialPatch changes Exec's OpenDevice()
- to use your device instead of the normal "serial.device". This
- won't cost you any CPU-Time and only 40 Byte of memory. :-))
-
-
- USAGE
-
- In this version, SerialPatch recognizes the following parameters:
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- NewDevice [PatchOnlyUnit/N] [NewUnit/N]
-
- NewDevice - This is the name of the device, that should be
- used instead of the original "serial.device".
- This parameter is required!
-
-
- PatchOnlyUnit - This optinal parameter could be used to tell
- SerialPatch to patch only *ONE* specific unit
- of the serial.device! Calling SerialPatch with
- this parameter set to "1", will make
- SerialPatch patching only calls to
- "serial.device", unit 1. Other units won't be
- touched.
-
-
- NewUnit - All calls patched calls (see PatchOnlyUnit),
- will be sent to this unit!! This parameter is
- optinal.
-
-
- EXAMPLE
-
- Here's an example for better understanding: A friend of mine uses
- a serial-board and has his modems connected to unit 0. Under unit
- 1 another amiga is connected via nomodem. But a game - that had
- the capability of playing against each other via modem or nomodem
- - always opended serial-device unit 0, which didn't work with the
- board.
-
- All you he has to do now, is to call "SerialPatch <my.device> 0
- 1" and all problems are gone. :-) SerialPatch will look for calls
- to serial.device,0 and remap them to <my.device>,1!
-
- You could also have called "SerialPatch <my.device> NewUnit 1",
- what would have remapped *ALL* calls to the serial.device to
- <my.device>,1.
-
-
- RESTRICTIONS
-
- Some programs use their own routines to access the
- serial-hardware (like PC-Task). Of course the patch won't do
- anything with them. Sorry, but there's nothing I can do about
- that.
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- SerialPatch requires at least Kickstart V37.xxx.
-
-
- THE AUTHOR
-
- If you have any comments for me or just want to tell me, that you
- hate my program, don't hesitate to connect me under one of the
- following addresses:
-
- Snail-Mail: Peter Simons E-Mail: simons@peti.GUN.de (Usenet)
- Europaring 20 2:242/7.25 (FIDO-Net)
- D-5300 Bonn 1
- Germany Voice: Tel. 0228 / 746061
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