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Article #754Re: Toolbook and Serial Port
From: scott
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 19:34
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 19:34
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In article <55040005@otter.hpl.hp.com> hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) writes: >Well, my first thoughts would be to try: > >(1) Writing a DLL that provides access to the serial port. Any real-time, > time critical code could go in the DLL. ToolBook has pretty reasonable > support for calling into DLLs > >(2) Write the serial port handing as another application and talk to it with > DDE. Ah, but the entire point of using Toolbook is to avoid the expense of purchasing Microsoft C/MASM and the SDK. Is it possible to write a DLL using, say Turbo C++ and/or Turbo Assembler? And what about those folks who don't know C or AL, are they SOL? -- Scott Coleman tmkk@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Quoth the Raven: 'Eat My Shorts!'" - Raven Bart, Simpsons' Halloween Special
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu!scott From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Toolbook and Serial Port Message-ID: <1990Nov29.193423.7727@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:34:23 GMT References: <1990Nov27.155940.2316@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <55040005@otter.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19