Re: serial ports

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:46:22AM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> John Coppens writes:
>  > If I'm not mistaken (I don't use windows), look at the g_io functions, I
>  > believe they are portable to Windows too. There may be a problem with the
>  > names of the devices (COM1: vs /dev/ttyS0) or so, but that is relatively
>  > easy to solve, I'd say.
>
> You are too optimistic. How well the g_io functions work with serial
> port devices is quite unclear. Windows is not Unix. Typically you have
> to use specialized API to talk to each kind of device or IPC channel.

Yes! I Agree. A good start to understand serial ports are to
read chapter 18 in "Advanced programming int the Unix Environment",
Richard Stevens, ISBN 0-201-56317-7.

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Göran Hasse

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