Funky Scanner
Weird things have been happening with belloc. I can’t correlate it
directly, but this machine has never worked for a long time without error
reading temperatures froma scanner. The other two boxes worked for a long
time. I am using IBM JDK 1.4 with Javacomm and this may be the source of
some of the trouble. I tried 1.4 on mary-grace but had to back out when
it didn’t work. The .available() method always returns 0. I’ve got a
listener registered now to see what’s really happening. There may be some
flakieness in the scanner also. I need to test it on another machine
before debugging this further.