On Tuesday 27 August 2002 05:11 pm, I wrote:
> Otherwise, you need to poll
> at a rate that's high enough not to lose data (and you should also
> do this polling in a Process that isn't going to get starved very
> often).

And you might also want to look at Craig Latta's Flow, which provides 
a blocking serial port.

http://www.netjam.org/flow/

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