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Re: IDEA for Serial Communications



>>>>> "Bill" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:

    Bill> OK, all that is needed, is a program (could act like an
    Bill> extension), that wrote the data to a comm port.  It doesn't
    Bill> need to be built into E/x, it could be emulated.  The COM
    Bill> ports are always going to be at the same addresses.  All
    Bill> ARDI (or someone) has to do is write a program that can run
    Bill> inside E/x and intercept the calls out to the COM ports, and
    Bill> rebroadcast them.

No.  Actually, all that is needed is a bunch of glue, *and* we've
already written most of the glue.  The problem is that we have to get
E2 out so we can hire more engineers.

    Bill> I CANNOT write this, do to the fact, that I don't know
    Bill> C/C++, or have any clue as to Mac programming, or any Mac to
    Bill> do it on.

Thanks for the suggestion, but serial port access is something we know
how to do, we just can't delay E2 for it.

    Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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