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Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> writes:
> Forget it! It's 2016 and we don't have a standard way to open an
> obsolete serial port, much less a socket, or invoke various screen
> resolutions and bit depths. I feel your pain.

I don't know of any language spec that says how to do those things.
That's left to OS API specs like POSIX, if anything.