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From: awg@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.w.gaunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C-Power questions
Summary: rs-232 with C-power/ Super-C
Message-ID: <5997@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 12:32:07 GMT
References: <5397@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <5397@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon E Bowen) writes:
(edited)
> I've got a few questions about C-Power that I know have been discussed
> here in the past, but I never needed the answers, so they weren't saved.
> So if anyone can answer any of these for me, I'd appreciate it:
> 1) First, and most simply, what's the current status of C-Power. Version
>    number, company name, etc? I bought mine about 3 years ago and I think
>    I remember the rights being sold or something like that. Is that BBS
>    still running for bugs, etc?
> 2) From C-Power I need to read/write to the rs-232 port. I think it would
>    probably be easiest to just do the whole thing through the sys()
>    function (I don't care how portable this code is). But does anyone
>    have a cleaner way?
> 
> Devon Bowen (KA2NRC)		FAX:	   (716) 636-3464
> University at Buffalo		BITNET:    bowen@sunybcs.BITNET
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I have seen several pleas for help with rs-232 communication with
C on the cbm computers.

I have used the rs-232 port on a c128 with
both C-Power (128) and Super-C (128) by "opening" the port as a
file. I opened it like I would with basic. The exact syntax
escapes me at this moment. I used the same chr$() in the filename
(for baud, parity etc) as the C128 programmers reference describes.

If anyone cares to see the actual code I can probably dig it up
and post it here. It worked! Unfortunatly the abundance of bugs
in both compilers discouraged me enough to re-write my program
for a BASIC compiler.

BTW
I called the CBBS in November and it was operating.

C-Power was purchased by Spinaker(?) and renamed Power-C (I think).