Microsoft KB Archive/42119

MSJ TSRCOMM: A Replacement for Interrupt 14

PSS ID Number: Q42119 Article last modified on 04-16-1991

MS-DOS

Summary: The following is a summary of the program found in the “Microsoft Systems Journal” and in the Software/Data Library: Issue: July 1987, Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 37-50 Title: “Keeping Up With The Real World: Speedy Serial I/O Processing” Author: Ross M. Greenberg Keyword: TSRCOMM The following text is taken from the cover of the “Microsoft Systems Journal”: Serial I/O processing under MS-DOS benefits dramatically when the BIOS serial communications routines available through INT 14H are replaced. Strategies for handling the necessary interrupts, XON/XOFF processing, and reliable communications up to 38,400 are suggested. TSRCOMM can be found in the Software/Data Library by searching on the keyword TSRCOMM, the Q number of this article, or S10012. TSRCOMM was archived using the PKware file-compression utility.