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From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith)
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Subject: Re: I/O on the Yaroze
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 11:47:17 GMT
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On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:36:14 -0800, Scott Cartier
<dsyaroze@concentric.net> wrote:
>But we're given the "ioctl()" routine which performs many serial I/O
>functions.  Mark Jawad and myself have been trying to get some sort
>of Yaroze/PC communications program going to no avail.  The header file
>for "ioctl()" isn't very helpful and the green reference manual doesn't
>say much either.

The lib40 manual says that peripheral devices should document
themselves so you can use ioctl to control them. Not altogether
useful, but not surprising.

>I assume since we're given that function then we should be able to use
>it.  As such it would cool if we could get questions answered about
>serial I/O.

The Sony engineers who created the Yaroze libs probably had a
different assumption, namely that it would've been potentially
dangerous to meddle too much with the header files just for the
purposes of cleanliness.

- Gil