On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> 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:");

You actually mean system("...");

> 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...

If it helps any on *BSD you have to use stty or equivalent ioctls after 
opening the port to set parameters or nothing will work ... deja vu

Peter
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