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to: Brady Flowers
from: Thomas King
date: 1994-07-08 11:20:04
subject: Re: Serial I/O

-=> Quoting Brady Flowers to Thomas King <=-

Hello Brady,

 BF> PMFJI, but I wanted to mention that there ARE just a couple of
 BF> situations where you can't read and write simultaneously.  I've

I do not expect I'll ever have that problem but will take your
advice about the mutex sem and configuration option. Thanks for
the tip.

 BF> P.S. DON'T use crit secs! :)

This is exactly what I am trying to avoid. I notice the choppy
effect they have on my slow machine. The few libraries I have
found all use crit secs and my little 386 goes spastic!

TTUL  Thomas


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