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From: dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Serial Communications in C
Message-ID: <653@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 25 Dec 87 01:09:21 GMT
References: <991@mhuxh.UUCP> <2574@metavax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In article <2574@metavax.UUCP> osm@metavax.UUCP (Owen Scott Medd) writes:
>
>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'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 MSC 5.0?
>


I am currently working on an interrupt driven multi-station LAN, using
the MSC compiler. So far the project has been exceedingly interesting. 
Since we havenot yet received the 5.0 we were compelled to mess around
with assembly. I am eagerly awaiting for the arrival of 5.0 which is 
SUPPOSED to be real good for developing serial communications related 
softwares.

I would really like to hear from our readers about their experiences
with serial communications and PCs. My favorite questions to our readers
will be the following :-

	* Can a RAM resident program be written completely in C (MSC) ?
	  If yes, then pplleeaassee email me a code segment of it!

	* Does anyone know of a serial driver which has been developed 
	  in C without having to resort to assembly at all.

Happy holidays to all of our readers !
                                                           Dipto



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