From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e21dc55d506e662 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: stephane.los@neuf.fr Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications ? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2cf1af34-0b13-4bee-88c2-6a50a2f6b28d@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <4d081d5f-0aca-446b-a90e-cf5ad71ce9e4@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <87tzduck12.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <87ljz4d2z9.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.71.164.73 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218659328 17220 127.0.0.1 (13 Aug 2008 20:28:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:28:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.71.164.73; posting-account=6z9kWAoAAACuYRwvZGtiqVTxwADSJkVk User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080703 Mandriva/2.0.0.16-1.1mdv2008.0 (2008.0) Firefox/2.0.0.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7343 Date: 2008-08-13T13:28:48-07:00 List-Id: On 10 ao=FBt, 22:33, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > >>>>> "Stephane" =3D=3D stephane los writes: > > Stephane> I am learning Ada and I find it quite funny that this serial > Stephane> stuff happens as COM ports are no more available on the > Stephane> machines... > > I use serial ports on a daily basis through USB to serial interfaces > on my desktop machine and my laptop. Many embedded systems still use > RS232 for communication. And the way to configure those serial USB > ports is similar to the way to configure vanilla serial ports. > > However, if you're trying to learn Ada, using the serial port is > probably not the best way to dig into the language :) > > Sam > -- > Samuel Tardieu -- s...@rfc1149.net --http://www.rfc1149.net/ OK, OK... ;-) I was just kidding... It's alive ! ThanX for the answers. Best Regards, Cordialement, St=E9phane