-----Original Message----- From: Tom Handley To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Monday, 13 October 1997 1:27 Subject: Re: Looking for RS232 library. > Matt, I just started writing some Win95/DOS 32-Bit 4GW routines to >communicate with my PIC-based weather station via the serial port at >9600 baud. The weather station sends 493 Bytes per day and I have'nt had >any problems with the serial port. I'm using the Watcom C/C++ compiler and >I'm accessing the serial port directly, not through BIOS. The program uses >the _pg_chart functions to display a variety of graphs. So far it's working >fine and I don't use interrupts. I intend to move the code to Win 95. > > - Tom > There's a rather easy to use OCX control that comes with MSVC 5 that makes comms on Windows an absolute breeze. (Assuming, that is, you don't have to go the TAPI route) A word of warning - the slightly 'older' version was constipated - it wouldn't pass zeros as legitimate data - which stuffs binary comms. If you're interested, I'll check the distribution license. MikeS