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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk    |
|    Re: serial ports galore    |
|    17 Jun 21 06:30:03    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 11:21:25 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:              > > After that, parsing of data can be done with standard       > > C90 code/libraries too.       > >       > > This is the problem. Someone has made it more       > > complicated than it needs to be. I wonder why.              > Yeah, no. Remember, after initial connection, the ports are       > shifted to temporal ports (i.e ports above 1024-65535).       > So, there is no guarantee you will get the same temporal       > port two times in a row.              You seem to be one of the people deliberately making it       more complicated than necessary, to keep software in       the hands of the elite.              I have no idea what you are talking about.              What I do know is that from PDOS/386 I am able to connect       to my BBS. There is nothing complicated about it. The only       unusual thing is the use of XON to know when to switch from       read to write mode.              BFN. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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