Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:15:02 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Can bioscom work at 19.2 kbaud?
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 deleveld AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

> I need to control two serial ports on a PC, one of which must
> be at 19.2k, the other at 4800.  I would like to use the bioscom
> functions for this, but they appear to only go to 9600.

The BIOS functions only support baudrates up to 9600.  For higher
rates you need to program the UART directly.

> Or am I stuck with trying to use an external serial IO library like
> bcserio?

Why ``stuck''?  IMHO, bcserio is a good library.

Anyway, you don't need a library if you don't want interrupt-driven
communications.  If your application can settle for polling the UART,
you can simply initialize the UART for your baudrate, and the read and
write its ports to send/receive characters.  This is very simple and
should not require any library.

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