Re: Win NT + Object Ada: serial port I/O

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <DDkrrqaW#GA.247@pet.hiwaay.net>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> lynch@cci.de wrote in message <7abh8g$bvh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> >> > Does anyone have any information/experience programming serial ports in
> Ada
> >on
> >> > a Windows platform? I can think of two ways to do this:
>
> On Windows NT, I use Ordinary File IO -- i.e. I open the file "COM2:" (or
> whatever),
> using  Gnat.Os_Lib.Open_Read_Write to get a file descriptor.

That is probably the way to go if your needs are simple. But it's probably not
going to be flexible enough for someone who wants to make use of the Win32
features (eg: buffer timeouts, character timeouts) of serial I/O.

> To deal with the ports settings, I write a file called _portsu.bat "on the
> fly" with parameters supplied by my program.  Here's an example of
> _portsu.bat:
> @echo off
> mode COM2 baud=2400 data=8 parity=N stop=1

Ewww!
:-)

T.E.D.

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