David Howey wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just got a PIC program up and running to drive two RC servos and an
> LCD display and talk to the PC via RS232. Question is, how the heck do
> you talk to the serial port from the PC (eg. in Pascal). I know how to
> read/write to the parallel port - just simply do a "Port[$***] :=
> whatever". But how's about the serial port? Can anyone help me out on
> this?
> Thanks
> -Dave
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> ger.
Yes,
You can 'bash' the hardware if you wish (I have done many times in the
past) but for a small sum of cash there are a number of good Pascal
comms libraries, in the UK the Grey Matter catalogue lists a few. If you
realy want to Do It Yourself I'm sure I can dig out some example code
that will work with Turbo Pascal 5 (or higher).

Paul Fletcher.