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to: PHIL QUINTON
from: BRIAN MCCLOUD
date: 1997-03-30 05:44:00
subject: Fossil Drivers, Help.

PQ>Hi, I am having a distinct inability to use a fossil driver.
PQ>    Can someone please give me some directions to follow
PQ>to sent commands to my modem using a fossil driver. I am
PQ>using X00 v2.02 and I have read the X00REF.DOC. I wrote a
PQ>small assembler program to activate a port, set when I
PQ>executed X00 so I didn't have to do it in assembler. Then I
PQ>sent ATZ to the serial port one character at a time. Then I made
PQ>a small loop to read 255 chacters with wait and displayed them
PQ>to the screen and I got a continous line of '8's.
PQ>    Tips?
Yeah... on functions 18h and 19h of int 14h, you can read a block and write a
block, respectively.
CX = max. characters to transfer
DX = port number
ES:DI = buffer
returns AX = number of characters transferred.
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