Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accessing the comm port with MS C
Message-ID: <448@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 13:57:58 GMT
References: <411@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
Lines: 32

In article <411@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
>I've just been landed with a project to write some software that communicates
>with the modem and printer ports on a PC. I'm going to be using MS C V5.1,
>but I have no real idea how to go about writing / reading / testing the
>state of the ports. I need the following:
>
>1. Check if the modem port has a character to read
>2. Get that character
>3. Write a character to the modem port
>4. Write a character to the printer port


Look into the book:

	C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications

written by

		Joe Campbell

published by

			Howard Sams and Co.


JB

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