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I too am having a bit of an nightmare trying to use the seral and paralle
ports for a programmer under Windows.
Dos/Unix works great, but Win9x is a real mare.

If you could possibly also send me those snippets, I would be most grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Simon


>         If you're writing a WIN application, you probably want to look at
> CreateFile, ReadFile() and WriteFile() instead of _inp(). VC++ has
> documentation on these. Contrary to what it says, you do not need to write a
> threaded application; i wrote a serial port programmer for an ADuC812 using
> these functions and polling at 9600 baud. I can send you code snippets for
> opening the file, reading, and writing if you want. That will give you
> something to base your stuff on.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sam woolf [mailto:samw@COGS.SUSX.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:56 AM
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: [OT]:serial port communication
> >
> >
> > I'm having a bit of a nightmare doing serial port
> > communication between a computer and a 16f84. The pic is
> > sending data at 19200 baud to the computer. I have been using
> > a c program based on craig peacock's at
> > www.beyondlogic.org/serial/termpoll.c . But unfortunately I
> > am losing significant amounts of data. I think this is
> > because the code needs to be interrupt driven but I can't get
> > the interrupt driven version
> > (www.beyondlogic.org/serial/buff1024.c )to work... My
> > compiler does not like the weird pointer-to-function or
> > whatever it is stuff going on with the interrupt function and
> > I cant get my head around what its supposed to be doing
> > either... I'm using microsoft visual c++ 5.0 and have already
> > had to make several adjustments such as changing all the
> > inportb()s to _inp()s... does anyone know what I need to do
> > to make this work, or does anyone have any simple to
> > understand and working microsoft visual c++ 5.0 code for
> > doing interrupt driven serial comms?? I know this is slightly
> > off topic but I am at my wits end!!
> > SW
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Regards,
Simon

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