Re: communicating with seial ports

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:18

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Maurice wrote:

>I like to communicate via serial port (com2 for ex.), I like to set up the 
>baud rate, data format, etc.... and just sending and receiving single 
>characters. the old "bioscom" seems not supported anymore, is there a simple 
>way to do that??

CreateFile() is used to open com ports.
See the "Communications Resources" heading in the help for CreateFile.

DCB structs are used to get/set com port settings.

ReadFile() is used to read data from the port.
WriteFile() writes data to the port.

Also see the help topic "Communications"

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