| ??? 11/11/09 17:45 Read: times |
#170698 - Eh?? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Joseph Hebert said:
If you are trying to program to communicate through a com port, you will need to search for, and read up on, using DCBs (Data Control Blocks). There are plenty of "wrappers" that let you do serial comms in Windows without having to worry about DCBs. I suggest abandoning the COM port in favor of the USB. If you interface through a USB port, you can use a USB to UART bridge chip, any of which will come with a full compliment of drivers and libraries that will make your programming as nearly as simple as the puts you're trying to use as is possible. No - disagree entirely! As far as the PC is concerned, the USB-to-UART adaptor looks exactly like any other COM port! Yes, custom libraries are usually available - but I don't think that's any easier than COM port programming, and it ties you to the particular vendor |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| 8051 communication using stdio.h | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RTFM | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| com ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Eh?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So your advise is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| where will that leave Maninder ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Best option | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| MSDN article on Serial Comms with the Win32 API | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Should be | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
It's not clear | 01/01/70 00:00 |