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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: bidirectional com ports
Date: 04 Nov 1993 17:32:52 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: pgilley@feenix.metronet.com's message of Wed, 3 Nov 1993 01:32:43 GMT


In article <CFw6yK.EBq@feenix.metronet.com>
pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) writes:

   Do either of these support bidirectional com ports?

What exactly do you expect to gain from it?  I dial in all the time to
machines with simple, non-kluged serial drivers and it works fine.

I think you are confused about what you really want.