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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
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Subject: Re: Toolbook and Serial Port
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Date: 29 Nov 90 19:34:23 GMT
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In article <55040005@otter.hpl.hp.com> hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) writes:
>Well, my first thoughts would be to try:
>
>(1) Writing a DLL that provides access to the serial port.  Any real-time,
>    time critical code could go in the DLL. ToolBook has pretty reasonable
>    support for calling into DLLs
>
>(2) Write the serial port handing as another application and talk to it with
>    DDE.

Ah, but the entire point of using Toolbook is to avoid the expense of purchasing
Microsoft C/MASM and the SDK. Is it possible to write a DLL using, say Turbo
C++ and/or Turbo Assembler? And what about those folks who don't know C or AL,
are they SOL?

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Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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