Re: Reading data from the serial port using ADA on an Unix platform

["Jim Dorman" <jimd@pcada.com>]

It's not necessary to use any Pragmas to use RS232.  IntegrAda and the
AdaUser libraries for ActivAda contain an RS232 library.  Don't make your
job any harder than it needs to be!  Use the right tools for the job.

Why not stop by the Home of PCAda and check out your toolchest!  You can
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Darel Cullen <Darel@djcull.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<JDwxYGAJJjGyEwQO@djcull.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.960820092821.10850A-100000@leonis.nus.sg>,
> Quek Chee Kwang <engp6328@leonis.nus.sg> writes
> >Greetings.
> >
> >I'm new to ADA and I would like to know how to program in ADA to read
data
> >(binary & ascii) coming from the serial port (for instance, a modem) on
an
> >Unix platform.
> >
> >Thank you very much.
> >
> >Quek
> >
> >
> 
> Firstly Investigate your compilers pragma INTERFACE features. what you
> will need to do is build up a set of ADA functions and procedures that
> are directly bound to the C calls, in unix's case I think ioctl() would
> be a good place to start.
> basically , ADA has no features with which to read from a serial port,
> you'll have to use the C calls and bind them to ADA.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Darel Cullen
>