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echo: os2prog
to: Neilen Marais
from: Phil Crown
date: 1996-01-30 18:12:00
subject: Newbie questions + comm q

-=> Quoting Neilen Marais to All <=- 

 NM> Also, if someone could in the meantime explain to me how to use a COMM
 NM> port, and how to do direct mem-writes in text mode it would be nice :)

pmtermsr.lzh by Peter Fitszimmons is a good example of accessing the COM
port as well as fast scrolling in a PM window.

You don't need to do direct screen writes, use the Vio* API's.
Documentation is available for these in PRCP.INF, aka PRCP.ZIP and
INF16BIT.ZIP.

Phil
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