Standard Serial Port Access

[Otac0n]

Is there an standards-compliant way to access the serial port?

I need this to potentially work on DOS 6/7 and *nix.

Your help would be appreciated.

[Mike Wahler]

"Otac0n" <Sp**************@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Is there an standards-compliant way to access the serial port?

No, since standard C++ has no notion of 'serial port' or
any other particular hardware devices. All i/o is abstracted
as 'streams of characters'. You'll need a platform-specific
solution such as library extensions possibly included with
an implementation or a third-party library.

-Mike