C/C++ Sample code for Serial Communication

[Jamil]

I have a device connected through serial port of my desk top PC
running Windows 2000. The device is sending some data as serial stream
asynchronously. I need to do the follwings:

1) Open the COM1 port of the PC
2) Read the data coming from the connected device
3) Save the data into a file
4) After writing all the data, the COM1 port should be closed

Please refer me any sample code either in C or C++ which I could run
on Windows 2000 PC side for above tasks.

[Jack Klein]

On 19 Jan 2004 19:36:26 -0800, ja************@yahoo.com (Jamil) wrote
in comp.lang.c++:

I have a device connected through serial port of my desk top PC
running Windows 2000. The device is sending some data as serial stream
asynchronously. I need to do the follwings:

1) Open the COM1 port of the PC
2) Read the data coming from the connected device
3) Save the data into a file
4) After writing all the data, the COM1 port should be closed

Please refer me any sample code either in C or C++ which I could run
on Windows 2000 PC side for above tasks.

Sorry, but you can't do any of those things in standard C++, the topic
here. The C++ language (and the C language, for that matter) do not
define or support direct access to any hardware at all. All input and
output is defined in terms of C++ stream or C FILE objects.

You need to ask in a support group for your particular compiler to
find out what non-standard extensions it might provide to help with
this. It is a compiler and platform specific issue, not a language
one.

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[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Jamil wrote:

I have a device connected through serial port of my desk top PC
running Windows 2000. The device is sending some data as serial stream
asynchronously. I need to do the follwings:

1) Open the COM1 port of the PC
2) Read the data coming from the connected device
3) Save the data into a file
4) After writing all the data, the COM1 port should be closed

Please refer me any sample code either in C or C++ which I could run
on Windows 2000 PC side for above tasks.

What's complicated about locating information on your own?
You have the world on you finger tips, you just need to find
the information:

http://www.google.com
Search string: serial port Win C++
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[thomas144]

>What's complicated about locating information on your own?

You have the world on you finger tips, you just need to >find the information: http://www.google.com

Karl,

I did a google search on "serial communication c++ sample code" and it found this thread.

I found this fairly useful site:
http://www.wince.org.uk/vc/intermediate/serialrw.htm

as well as (even better I think):

http://www.codeproject.com/system/serial.asp