Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Samuel Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu>
To: Bill Currie <bill_currie AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Interrupt driven serial IO
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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Bill Currie wrote:

> On 21/6/96  4:14 am, Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De> did thus say
> >>>
> > DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > > By now, we should be able to do interrupt-driven serial port I/O
> > > without a TSR.
> > Is anybody working on that? Or even hooking this
> > into the filesystem extensions? An open("/dev/com1",mode); 
> > would be _REAL_ great. BTW, is ioctl() POSIX?
> > 
> 
> I'm working on the serial comms and it should be working in a week or two (I
> hope).
> 
> As to the filesystem extensions, the interface didn't make any sense to me at the
> when I looked at it.
> 
> Bill

Take a look at svasync.zip on Dj's site under the downloadable files, then
the contributed area.
It's been available for a few weeks now I believe.  It's an interrupt
driven serial port library for DJGPP 2.0 complete with source.

-Sam