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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Code Request for using the Serial port
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.053346.989@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 09:33:46 GMT
References: <13711@june.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <13711@june.cs.washington.edu>,
chou@june.cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) writes:
> Hi, I am porting a terminal emulator to the PC, but
> I don't have much previous experience with the PC.
> I am not sure how to access the serial port.
>
> How do you
>
>  - reset, set baud rate, parity, etc
>  - find how how many bytes there are left to be read
>  - how to read/write the serial port.
>
> I am doing this in Turbo Pascal.  If you have a small
> sample code that you can share, please send it to me.

PC Magazine had a good sample program called DOSTERM that covered all the
necessary functions (except interrupt driven output, which isn't essential).  I
believe it was Vol 8, No. 16 and can be found on Simtel.  It's commented
assembler source code that helped me quite a bit.
-Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)