From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: serial problem
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:10:11 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >I have a rather weird problem with djgpp v2. I have two computers linked
>> >together(Both on COM1), using a serial link. And I am using bioscom()
>> 
>> That's your problem: bioscom() is sucks.
>
>Are you telling there are bugs in bioscom's implementation?

There are bugs in the design of BIOS's own interface to the UART.
Without the sources for BIOS, that would be awfully hard to fix.

>If so, please tell what they are.

BIOS uses polling.  That should be enough.

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