Re: how to access Serial port in ada?

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3295AF99.348B@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> Dave Wood wrote:
>> 
>> Li Li wrote:
>> >
>> > I have ObjectAda student version. which runs under win95 and creates
>> > console applications.
>> >
>> > How can i access serial port in ObjectAda.
>> 
>> Write a device driver.
>> 
> 
> If this is the best ObjectAda and Alsys/Thompson/Aonix (I wish they'd
> stop changing names!) can do, I'm certainly not giving them my money!

Well for the student version, it would not have been much of your
money.  I would think that someone who writes from Nasa.Gov might
be more inclined toward the full version, including Windows bindings,
etc.

> Surely you can access the Windows 95 comm port driver? Under Windows 3.1
> and Borland C++, there was a binding to the Windows API functions for
> the serial port (OpenComm, ReadComm, WriteComm). Surely ObjectAda can
> provide a binding to these functions for Windows 95!?

I was under the impression that the term "console applications"
with ObjectAda means what some people would call "DOS mode". If
that is the case, relying on the Windows API is not viable,
regardless of which version you bought.

Larry Kilgallen
who thinks Aonix is a much worse name than Thomson