Thread: Serial Ports

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    Serial Ports

    How difficult is it to write C/C++ code which works with the serial ports....such as.........you have a serial port cable hooked up to your serial port, and the other end to a small circuit board you made consisting only of an LED....what's the difficulty level of writing code to turn the LED on and off....is that really hard?

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    Its not too hard. Just operating system dependant. What os?
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
    And the FAQ is here :- http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi

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    mmm....most likely WIN ME....

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    You can use the win32 api function CreateFile() to access the serial port. Look in the documentation at msdn
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
    And the FAQ is here :- http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi

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    Not sure if it'll work perfectly under windows, but if you want to try some inline ASM you can use ASM's IN and OUT instructions.

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