cheers,
{*filter*}
dept of anaesthetics, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK

Dick:

What do you get from/to the device if you just set the parity at the
PC side to none, which basic says you must use if you have 8 data
bits?  I remembering fooling around with one of these once before
where it didn't matter a heck of a lot what the parity was set to, I
still got my data at the PC end anyway.

I'll go read what a few other routines do in assembler to set the
registers in the 8250 et al.

Do you use a "piggy-in-the-middle" program for sorting out
undocumented I/O to those weirdo devices that come with a PC software
package that doesn't do what you want, and {*filter*}-all dox for you to
do it yourself?

Regards,Tom Werry  gpsnav at pacific dot net dot sg
Programmer's Logic:   Press ENTER to exit.  (laugh now, here)

-Mike A.