Re: how to access Serial port in ada?

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> 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.

You've misread; "Li Li" purchased ObjectAda; I'm just ranting.

> 
> > 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.
> 

Under Borland, a "console application" is a real Windows application,
but it has a simple text based stdin stdout user interface, so it
"feels" like DOS. It can use all the Windows device drivers. I have not
used ObjectAda, but it can surely do something similar. I don't want to
have to tell people to use Borland!

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

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- Stephe