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From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Video Laser Disc Driver
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Date: 29 Jan 91 19:39:13 GMT
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In article 91028.164153LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be,
  <LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> (Peter Arien) wrote:

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>In order to experiment with the setup, I have a Philips VP 410
>Laservision Disc Drive connected to my PC (386SX) over the RS232. I
>found a very neat Pascal communication program in
>wuarchive.wustl.edu, that makes it possible to send ASCII commands
>over the Com1 (RS232) to the video-player. And it works fine.  (The
>program is called Comm-TP4 and is written by Kevin R. Bulgrien.)

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>The question : where do I find a program that does the same thing
>and is much (!) smaller. This means : it doesn't have to have any
>user-interaction facilities, it just must be able to send the ascii
>commands to the laser disc drive over Com1.
>
>Commands like : ,1 (stand by)
>                F00001N (goto picture number 1 and start playing)
>                ,0 (stop).

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Perhaps I'm suggesting an overly simple approach, but have you
tried initializing the com port (via a DOS MODE command (from a
batch file or an EXEC call) or by using the appropriate BIOS call or
some other means), then merely using WriteLn(Com1,',1'), etc.?

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