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RE: Driving COM ports

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at localnet.com> May 02, 2001
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Andy Drummond wrote:
> Hello there you Euphoric people.
> I have just written a moderately big database program in Euphoria with 
> Win32Lib using the IDE. So far so good. But there seems to be no support 
> 
> for driving the serial ports of the PC. I have some code I have got off 
> the EU site but that is just giving me access to the 16550 UARTs so I 
> can push and pull bytes to it. I have to use a timer interrupt to test 
> for received bytes. Not nice.
> Does anyone have a clean-ish package to drive the COM ports with 
> interrupt I/O, so it can be driven as if a system character device? Or 
> does anyone know where I can get one .... etc etc.
> Thanks
> Andy
> 
> 
Andy:

  Here's how to do Serial Communications in windows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vcsample/vcsmpserialsampleforcommunicationsdemonstration.htm


Bernie