Re: ASK: How to send a c

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From: John Cocula
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:53

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In a message to All <11-11-92 21:13>, tranx writes:

 tA> A: I tried to write a program to communicate with my instrument through
 tA>    a serial port(eg. COM1). I have C Set/ 2 and Work Frame but I couldn't
 tA>    find a system call that allows me to "open COM1: for example" and
 tA> return
 tA>    a handle. So that I can use this handle to send a character to this
 tA> serial
 tA>    port. Would you like to help me out?

Use the DosOpen call with a "file" name of "COM1".
You can also issue DosDevIOCtl calls to set baud rate, parity,
etc.

  
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