Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!umix!metavax!osm
From: osm@metavax.UUCP (Owen Scott Medd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Serial Communications in C
Message-ID: <2574@metavax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 15:45:14 GMT
References: <991@mhuxh.UUCP>
Reply-To: osm@metavax.UUCP (Owen Scott Medd)
Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: Any experience with the new MSC5.0 interrupt capability?

In article <991@mhuxh.UUCP> vxb@mhuxh.UUCP (Vern Bradner) writes:
>Can anyone share their knowledge/experiences in writing C routines to
>communicate with remote systems via the PC serial port?
>
>I tried inp and outp without much success. Are there any C libraries
>that might make this job easier?

I've just glanced at the documentation on writing interrupt handlers in
Microsoft C 5.0.  This looks like a very nice facility to avoid coding
serial drivers in assembler.  Has anyone made an attempt to rewrite any
of the public domain serial drivers in MSC5.0?

[ It's one item on my list of things to do in my copious spare time :-> ]

Owen
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