I've responded privately to code requests to avoid attachments. Anyone think
this should be in some sort of FAQ? Plenty of stuff for DOS, but little for
windows that I have seen. Is there something out there already, or is there
a need to create it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Redwood [mailto:spredwood@SRI-NET.DEMON.CO.UK]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OT]:serial port communication
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> Reply To: "Simon Redwood" <spredwood@sri-net.demon.co.uk>
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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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