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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: reading data from a serial port using Turbo Pascal
Keywords: turbo pas, serial
Message-ID: <1033@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 8 Nov 89 20:33:09 GMT
References: <2146@leah.Albany.Edu>
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In article <2146@leah.Albany.Edu> ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue) writes:
>
>   A friend of mine is looking to have a turbo pascal program read data
>from the serial port. Assuming he is using TP 4.0, is this possible? I
>don't know exactly what he is after, so I am just looking for ideas on

See eg O'Brien, Turbo Pascal, the Complete Reference.  (Contrary to
reading parallel ports, reading serial ports will not be
uncomplicated.)

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