Re: IO-PORTS

[Qwerty <alexanderdupont@yahoo.com>]

I'm using DOS & Linux (it is not possible in windows to do that 
directly, as you 've said). It's not ok to use a package, I really have 
to do it myself. But thanks anyway for the help.

Alexander


Stephen Leake wrote:
> Qwerty <alexanderdupont@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have to make an ADA-program for school. The program requires to
>>connect 2 computers and to let them communicate through the COM1-port.
>>
>>How do you read/write from/to the COM1-port. It must be programmed on
>>a low level. So we have to read/write directly from/to the IOports
>>with adresses 16#03F8# to 16#03FD#.
>>
>>How do you do that in Ada ?
> 
> 
> What operating system are you using? Since you say "COM1", it's
> probably either DOS or Windows.
> 
> If DOS, I have no idea. If Windows, you can use my com ports package,
> assuming it's ok for you to reuse stuff off the net:
> 
> http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/win32_com_ports.zip
> 
> But this does not "write directly to the IO port". You can't do that
> in Windows!
>