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to: Paul Edwards
from: Paul Wankadia
date: 1996-11-08 17:28:10
subject: Writing structs

On 03 Nov 96, Paul Edwards wrote to Paul Wankadia --

PE> What did you hope that "CRC" would look like when printed
to the screen?
PW> Like a CRC?
 PE> What does a CRC look like?

Like a CRC 

PE> You "need" comms routines to do that.  Various unsavoury
people would
PE> attempt to write to stdaux or open file "COM3", but invariably they
PW> Why won't it work?  You'd just be writing a byte to a stream, wouldn't
 PE> What stream?  For starters I've got 4 COM ports, and under DOS, no-one

Hey, everyone -- bow down and kiss his feet cuz he has 4 COM ports 

 PE> knows what IRQ or I/O port or speed or flow control they are operating
 PE> at.  BFN. Paul.

Would it be possible to use the functions in 'bios.h' to set all that up?

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