Nov 96 Top 10

Volume Number: 12

Issue Number: 11

Column Tag: Symantec Top Ten

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By Scott Morison, Symantec Technical Support

Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM or

source code disks.

Q: After upgrading my Mac from 64M to 136MB of RAM the Symantec Project

Manager (v8.1) now barks at me with -37 error, saying, “The application

Symantec Project Manager cannot start up because of an unknown error.” What

gives?

A: This error will occur while launching the Symantec Project Manager on any

Macintosh possessing more than 110MB of RAM. There are two ways to fix this:

1) Call or send e-mail to Symantec Technical Support and request the SPM -37

patch.

Phone: (541) 465-8470

E-mail: support@devtools.symantec.com

2) You can make the necessary changes to the Symantec Project Manager yourself

using ResEdit:

• Make a copy of the Symantec Project Manager and open it in ResEdit.

• Open the STR# ID 203 in the STR# resource.

• Change the 2nd string of STR# 203 to read,

• Change the 3rd string of STR# 203 to read,

Q: How do I send and receive data from the a serial port on my Mac?

A: This code sample walks through the basics of sending and receiving character data

from a serial port:

[Thanks to Mark Y. Geschelin for the original code this is based on.]

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

#define SERBUFSIZ 1024 // Define the Input buffer size to use

char *inbuf; // pointer to input character buffer

short inRefNum, outRefNum; // Device driver Reference Number holders

/////////////////////////////////////////

// Initialize the Serial Port //

/////////////////////////////////////////

OSErr InitializeSerialPort()

{
OSErr   err;
SerShk flags;
Ptr buf;

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