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From: kb2glo@cbnewsj.att.com (thomas.kenny)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Q's about serial I/O in TC++
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.174824.15422@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:48:24 GMT
References: <15151@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <15151@helios.TAMU.EDU> sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>Disclaimer: I'm new to Turbo C++... I'm new to C++... For that matter, I'm
>just learning C (not a bad transition from Pascal, though).
>
>I'm trying to do serial IO using the bioscom library function. The IO
>appears to be unbuffered. If so, what is the best way to do buffered
>IO out the COM port? If not, can I set the size of the buffer? Finally,
>is there a way to set the XMIT/Receive timeout times?  Thanks.
>                                                             Steven

This is a very good question! I was just about to ask the same thing.
Although I'm a guru in UNIX/C I'm a novice when it comes to C++ and
C on MSDOS. I wrote a short C program using bioscom and characters
were being dropped from the COM port. To learn C++ better I would
rather just write in C++ then in C. So I'd also like to know how to
access the COM ports without dropping any bytes. Any ideas, suggestions?


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