On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 11:22  AM, tedd wrote:

>> Track down a Keyspan USB to dual serial adaptor ($40 or so) which 
>> provides 2 old-fashioned mini-DIN 8 serial ports which can be fiddled 
>> just like the old serial ports.
>

> I've found them for $19.95 -- somewhere.

That's not too hard to swallow...

> My concern is that is writing code using "open "C",#port,9600,_..." 
> going to do it? After all, we are using a USB port and from whatever 
> I've read and heard, that's a completely different ball game -- is it 
> not? (i'm starting to sound gnome-like).

There are worse things like which you might sound...

Actually, OPEN "C" does it just fine, since the comm toolbox (and 
whatever may or may not have replaced it in X) seems to provide a sort 
of global list of the available serial ports which other applications 
(like FB through its FBInitSerialPorts) can use just like the old MODEM 
and PRINTER ports. In fact, the normally-stroked Keyspan flops a 
genuine old-style port up there named "PRINTER" for all to use, except 
for old-style twisted pair Appletalk and MIDI use.
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Ted Spencer
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