On Jul 8, 2005, at 7:00 AM, peiserma@ridgid.com wrote:

> I can tell you interfacing with the serial
> port is not trivial under anything after Win98. While it's
> not difficult for someone reasonably comfortable with the C
> language, to do it correctly takes a fair bit of programming.

Really?  I thought that treating the serial port "normally" would
be pretty easy; just open com1: as a file and do your reads and
writes.  It's when you need to do NON-standard things like bit-bang
the modem control lines that things become difficult.

If I'm right, that implies something about designing the PIC-side
serial interface as well - keeping it simple enough to operate with
WXP through "normal" channels will probably also allow it to work
through more complex comm paths...

BillW

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