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- Path: EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!usenet
- From: martijnl@xs4all.nl (Martijn Lievaart)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Serail Port Programming
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 01:45:10 GMT
- Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
- Message-ID: <4cn8j6$he7@news.xs4all.nl>
- References: <4cgjij$lmk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
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- In article <4cgjij$lmk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, prestridge@aol.comÄ says...
- >
- >I am needing a good way of reading from an RS-232 serail port. I am using
- >a Turbo c++ 1.0 compiler and have already tried bioscom to no avail. Any
- >help will be appreciated. My address is prestridge@aol.com.
- >
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- BIOS serial support sucks. It's just not reliable as it is not interrupt
- driven. Write to the hardware or get a (freeware) library to do that for you.
- Using the BIOS here is almost always a bad idea.
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- Happy computing,
- Martijn
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