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In <Tue_Mar_26_20:57:09_1991@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> lindsay@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Lindsay Weir) writes:

>I would like to know if there is any public domain 
>software or utility to capture data from the serial 
>ports (COM1 and COM2), and send them to different 
>buffers which can then be accessed by a 'C' program
>I am writing?

Yes, there  are several `Fossil'-Drivers  which do exactly that thing.
They where written for the FidoNet Software `Opus' first,  but it's an
Universal COM Port Interface, which can be  accessed via DOS Interrupt
calls. They Provide a FIFO Buffer for each  Port,  I think that's what
you're   looking for.   One of   them  is called X00.SYS,  another one
BNU.SYS,   and yet another   (which   even  provides a  Software  MNP5
Emulation) MX5.

>The data would be arriving at 1200bps on each port,
>and it is important that everything gets captured,
>and sent to the buffers. The program that reads the
>buffers would be running in the background of 
>MS Windows, so I can run other applications in the
>foreground.

No Problem. If you   don't find a place  where  to get   one  of those
drivers (or documentation about the programming interface), mail me.

Thomas
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