Serial

[Kandy]

Hi,
I need to write a program for use a serial port. I'm using the Borland C++
5.5 I tried to use the old method with the library bios.h but this library
does not come with the borlad. Propabilbly it can not be use with windows
XP.
I do not have a very strong experience in C++ someone can help me with a
little demo?

p.s.
I do not know how to use the object programmation. For this reason I need
something that will run in a dos shell.


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[JKop]

Kandy posted:

Hi,
I need to write a program for use a serial port. I'm using the Borland C++ 5.5 I tried to use the old method with the library bios.h but this library does not come with the borlad. Propabilbly it can not be use with windows XP.
I do not have a very strong experience in C++ someone can help me with a little demo?

p.s.
I do not know how to use the object programmation. For this reason I need something that will run in a dos shell.


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In Windows, use the "OpenFileEx" function to open a port. I
believe you specify the filename as something like:

\\*\\COM1

msdn.microsoft.com will tell you more.
-JKop

[Victor Bazarov]

Kandy wrote:

I need to write a program for use a serial port. I'm using the Borland C++
5.5 I tried to use the old method with the library bios.h but this library
does not come with the borlad. Propabilbly it can not be use with windows
XP.
I do not have a very strong experience in C++ someone can help me with a
little demo?

Yes, someone in a Borland newsgroup or in a Windows newsgroup can. C++ as
it is discussed here, in comp.lang.c++, does NOT have any mechanisms to
access and/or control hardware. You need to use OS-specific means.

BTW, 'bios.h' is not a library. It's a header.

V

[Gerhard Wesp]

Kandy <na****@gmail.com> wrote:

I do not have a very strong experience in C++ someone can help me with a
little demo?

I have a serial port platform-independent interface (so we're at least
somewhat on-topic :-) and Microsoft-Windows specific implementation in
cpp-lib. See http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~gwesp/ .

Cheers
-Gerhard
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