Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaem From: rcbaem@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Ernst Mulder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist Message-ID: <823@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> Date: 8 Aug 89 10:56:13 GMT References: <587GDAU100@BGUVM> <19201@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 16 In article <587GDAU100@BGUVM> GDAU100@BGUVM.BITNET (Jonathan B. Owen) writes: > o I would like to see a standard Control Device for setting the port > used for communication (read Modem) with all it's relative parameters, > such as speed, parity, etc. Maybe even a modem setup string sent to > the modem at boot. This would eliminate the need for each comm. > program to have it's own implementation. Uh, what about Terminal Programs which save different Speed/Parity/etc. settings for different phonenumbers? What about my MIDI interface? It would be enough to set the standard Serial port. Generally I don't agree with you on this point. I use my serial port for MIDI, and communications, so I need different settings. Ernst. >