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Re: Interupt drivers for serial ports

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From: John D. Mitchell
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 03:42
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In article <12592@milton.u.washington.edu> smm@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) writes:

>I need info (and hopefully source code) for setting up an interrupt driver under Turbo Pascal 5.5 (or 6.0) to trap incoming characters from either COM1 or COM2.  I know how to write the driver itself, and understand how to use TP to set it up as an interu
>pt procedure.  
>
>Wt I need to know are the values that the interrupt controller needs to get
>to "install" the driver as active.  I have torn apart several manuals and 
>ripped through pages of source code trying to "reverse engineer" this problem
>but I don't seem to be able to figure it out.

See the Dec/Jan 1991 (Vol 1 #5) issue of PC Techniques.

There's also a book titled something like Programmers guide to serial
communication.

Good luck,
	John D. Mitchell
	johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU
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