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- Subject: Re: IBM PC's serial communication ports
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.071706.17911@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: cscmd@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis)
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 07:17:06 GMT
- Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System)
- References: <3115@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Organization: La Trobe University
- Keywords: IBM PC, Ports, COM1, COM2
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- In article <3115@ulysse.enst.fr> komatits@honegger.enst.fr (Dimitri Komatitsch) writes:
- >Does anybody know if some code (C or Pascal) that would facilitate the
- >programming of communication through IBM PC's communication ports COM1:
- >and COM2: is available on freeware? I know that using the BIOS interrupts
- >I could program it but if it already existed it would avoid me to loose
- >too much time...
-
- FTP BNU170.ZIP from simtel20 (or your local mirror) in the FOSSIL
- directory. A FOSSIL is a program which replaces the BIOS' brain-damaged
- Int14h services with a whole swag of serial port communication routines.
-
- I've used it to write games where you link two PCs. Works great. Also,
- most PC-based electronic mail packages (such as Binkley, FrontDoor) use
- a FOSSIL.
-
- It's the answer to your problems.
-
- Mitch.
-