From: acottrel AT magna DOT com DOT au (Andrew Cottrell)
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Subject: Re: Serial port access problem
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:51:47 GMT
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Rather than writing your own serial comms code you should check out
the three serial comms packages and choose the best one for your
application. The three applications are:
	1) BCSERIO, Filename: BCSIO20.ZIP in the V2TK directory. Last
I seen this still has an obscure bug. (I can't remember if this has
been fixed.)
	2) DZCOMM, Filename: DZCOMM04.ZIP in the V2TK directory. Also
needs allegro. This is my choice as it allows timers, graphics, sound
etc..... I have used V2 for a datascope program.
	3) SVASYNC, Filename: SVAS011B.ZIP in the V2TK directory. This
is very good for a simple project.

The other advantage of using an off the shelf packages is that they
are easy to use and they work!!!!!

Regards,
Andrew

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:04:21 -0500, "Spec-Temp, Inc." 
<spectemp AT bright DOT net> wrote:
>I am trying to interface a digital gram balance to a PC via RS232. The
>PC is a Quantex pentium 166 running Win95. The balance sends a 17 byte
>data stream whenever the appropriate key is pressed. I know that the
>communication works because I can transfer the information through
>ProComm Plus directly reading the serial port. This tells me that the
>hardware is ok and the communication settings are correct.
>
>Thanks
>Brian Miller
>Spec-Temp, Inc.