Formatted text from a COM port

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From: Rajiv Sarathy
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 16:52

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Over the last couple of months several people have asked how to read/write
from PC serial ports in C.  However, none of the posters summarized any
info they received.  

Since I have no record of who the posters were, and postings are cleared every
week on this machine, I would like to either see a summary, or have someone
help me.

I need to read formatted text from the serial port.  Unfortunately, fopen
doesn't open "com1:", so I can't see how to use fscanf.

This problem has definitely been tackled several times before by users of
digitizers, etc.  Please help!

If it matters, I can use any of MSC5.1, QC2 with MASM, MASM5.1

Thanks in advance.

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From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Formatted text from a COM port
Summary: Asked before, but poster didn't summarize
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.165257.21884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 20 Feb 90 16:52:57 GMT
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