Re: [NTLK] IrDA Progress

From: Daniel Padilla (dproldan_at_telefonica.net)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 16:38:34 EST


> it seems that the IrDA implementation on the Newton (2.1 devices) is not
> completely braindead after all. I have a first hack of TinyTP and IrCOMM
> working, it's however in the very very early stages. The only
> uncertainty is the packeting of data but it looks like the packet size
> can be derived directly from the IrDA receive buffer size.
>
> Next steps: complete IrCOMM and test TinyTP and IrCOMM. Then the big
> challenge: Disguise the whole thing as a serial chip to make it a system
> wide available serial port (e.g. to hook up to a cell phone modem).
> Question to Paul G. in this matter: would implementing a TSerialChip
> protocol do the trick? That would probably be easy...
>

    Incredible Eckart, you're my hero.

Don't know if it is of any use, but there's an array of modem ports at
getglobals().ModemLocations , maybe it'll have to be added there.

Daniel Padilla

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