On Jul 9, 2005, at 12:53 AM, Rob Hamerling wrote:

>>> 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.

>> How do you set the baudrate, or do you consider that a non-standard
>> operation?
>>
Typically it's an ioctl operation, isn't it?  yeah, that gets 
complicated.

For the first effort, I'd require that the user set them correctly.
For a second effort, I'd be tempted to do something like
     exec("mode com1:9600,n,8,1 > nul:");

that still works, doesn't it?  It did back in the DOS days, and it looks
like XP still has "mode" as a command line utility...

BillW

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