Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!rreiner From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Formatted text from a COM port Message-ID: <8045@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 90 16:39:15 GMT References: <1990Feb20.165257.21884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <25E9D92B.20065@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 18 cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: >In article <1990Feb20.165257.21884@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy) writes: >$I need to read formatted text from the serial port. Unfortunately, fopen >$doesn't open "com1:", so I can't see how to use fscanf. > Might I suggest that you look around on simtel20 for a shareware/PD >interrupt-driven comm port package? LiteComm is the biggest and best such library for C in the PD / shareware area. Available on Simtel as PD:MCOMM.ARC (microsoft C version), and PD:TCOMM.ARC (turbo C version). --Richard -- Richard J. Reiner rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca BITNET: rreiner@yorkvm1.bitnet (also rreiner@vm1.yorku.ca)