Subj : Re: Serial Comm with 5.5
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Matt Claessen
Date : Tue Jan 18 2005 12:17 am

Hi,

"Reelex" <xstout@sprintmail.com> wrote in message news:41ec313d$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hey,
>   Is there any reason why I can't use Borland C 5.5 to write serial
> communication without downloading a .h ?  I think I have to use  the
> readfile() and writefile(), but I can't find much info on using them with
> com ports.  Nor do I know what include file I need for them.  Also, I
> thought I would find what I was looking for in some sort of Win32 API
> documentation.  Can't find that either!  Some suggestions or links would be
> greatly appreciated, thanks.
> Andre
>

How about looking at msdn ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/devio/base/communications_functions.asp
for the comm functions
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfiles/html/msdn_serial.asp
for the mttty sample program

regards, Matt

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