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RE: Driving COM ports

• Posted by Andy Drummond <kestrelandy at xalt.co.uk> May 02, 2001
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Gee, Bernie!
That looks great. I've just downloaded and we'll see what we can do with 
it...
Thanks!
Andy

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> 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
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> 
> Bernie
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