Serial I/O

[Kristoffer Eriksson]

In article <18801 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Ah, but Kermit cheats.  It sends packets and then receives packets - it is 
>very much a synchonous protocol.
>
>The "real" answer is the use select(), poll() or some combination of
>vmin=0/vtime=0 termio magic.

But C-kermit does just that. Especially nowadays whit sliding windows and all
that. In protocol mode, that is. In terminal mode, it uses two separate
processes.

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