Windows Serial Ports

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Thu Apr 9 15:05:00 GMT 1998


John Massingham wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried talking to the serial ports under gnuwin32?
> 
> If so, how did you do it, can you make use of mscomm.dll etc
> in order to have access to MS comm classes eg comm1.port = 1
> or can you just write directly to the hardware at address 
> 0x3F8 for example?

You should be able to just open "comn" where n is a number from 1 to 4
and then communicate with it normally...

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Geoffrey Noer
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