On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Ojala Pasi 'Albert' wrote: > Only one serial channel can be 'active' at a time. You are trying > to have one channel TALKing and another LISTENing, which does not > work. Ask the drive to talk (CHKIN), then read a block of chars > (CHRIN), then ask it to untalk (CLRCHN), then ask the printer to > listen (CHKOUT), send chars (CHROUT), then ask it to unlisten > (CLRCHN). You can also use the serial routines directly (instead of the higher-level OPEN/CLOSE routines). And I've seen a sample program that tells the drive to talk and the printer to listen at the same time, printing a file without computer intervention. Marko - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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