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From: nwh@aber.ac.uk (N W Hardy)
Subject: Re: PUMA 560 Interfacing Packages ?
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In article <1993Dec6.173029.1727@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk>,
 udem004@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk doodled:


|> It will be much appreciated if anybody could suggest me ready-made packages
|> implementing the interface, or software dealing with DDCMP protocols. 


As it happens we are going round this age-old loop again at the moment and have been greatly helped by code we got from some collegues. I'm not sure what their situation is on distributing the code more widely so I'll be a little careful.

It implements the DDCMP protocol and the 5 services offered over it by Unimation. It runs on a sparc; is in C; is presented as a demonstration/general purpose program and as a library of C routines which can be used to build special purpose applications. We have bound the functions to Ada and pop11.

Contact me again is you are interested. Perhaps others on this group know of similar implementations?

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