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Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:33:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	ROLAND <roland_asmann AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Serial Communicaton
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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--- Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> You need to use the DJGPP Filesystem Extensions
> feature to catch
> library calls as above and redirect them to the
> async communications
> library you downloaded.
> 
> For working examples of using Filesystem Extensions
> for similar
> purposes, look in ports of GNU software, such as GNU
> Fileutils (file
> ls-msdos.c) and Ispell (file djterm.c).

Where are these Filesystem Extensions for? And why do
I need them? Isn't it possible to just set up a link
to the external device and send the data?

> You will have to resolve this one step at a time. 
> If you have
> specific problems to compile with these header
> files, try to figure
> out how to get the same functionality with DJGPP,
> and if you can't
> figure that out, post the details here.

Well I am having trouble with a struct sgttyb... I
replaced this by a struct termios, but then I get
errors about some members of the struct that do not
exist...
And furthermore my program tells me it doesn't know
TIOCNXCL...

Roland


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