Hej ROBERT!

Sunday September 08 1996, ROBERT DEED writes to ALLAN MERTNER:

 ->> There is nothing wring with using the Port[] array, even under OS/2.
 ->> After all, it is just a wrapper to access I/O ports, that still goes
 ->> through OS/2 protection mechanisms.  It certainly is both easier and
 ->> faster than issuing DosDevIOCtl calls.

 RD>         NO.  When you use the Port[] array it DOES NOT go through SIO.
 RD> I use 115200 locked com routines, and I don't feel like having my
 RD> computer slow down to a crawl when my bbs software is running.

In this case, you should obviously use some properly controlled I/O.  I
just cannot understand your objections since we give the user a *choice* -
if all you want to do is write an "A" to the com-port, Port[] is
a nice and easy solution.

By the looks if i, we'll probably never agree though :)

Allan

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