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From: Jerry Jessop <Jerry_Jessop@playstation.sony.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: Re: I/O on the Yaroze
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 09:28:08 -0800
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I'm not a Yaroze coder but I might suggest you check out the "floating
worlds" members page. It appears that they have some pretty cool serial
stuff going.

Jerry


Scott Cartier 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Jerry Jessop wrote:
> > Scott,
> >
> > It's my understanding that the Yaroze libraries do not include any
> > support for serial or parallel I/O.
> >
> > There is nothing hardware wise that would prevent you from using either.
> > How much info we could release is another matter, probably very little.
> >
> > Jerry Jessop
> > SCEA Hardware Engineer