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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: serial port programming
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Ted Dennison wrote in message ...
>In article <SfaR6.2518$Fw2.4216934@nnrp5.proxad.net>, EtienneB says...
>>
>>I thought it may exist portable libs...
>>
>>=>    For win9x or NT
>
>None that I know of (not even for non-Ada languages).
>
>For NT there are special serial port mode setting calls you can make,
which may
>or may not work on 9x. You should consult a good Win32 reference
manual. If you
>are using Gnat, there are bindings the Win32 system calls that come
with the
>compiler. I believe the same goes for Aonix.


The serial port mode routines do work on 9x etc.

>Also, there's most likely a nice, high-level way to do it with the Claw
>facility.


Thanks for the plug, but in fact there isn't a facility in Claw for
this. When we started building Claw, we decided to avoid creating stuff
that already exists in Ada 95. I/O clearly is in that category, although
the serial port access clearly is a special case. It would be easy
enough to build such a thing (Janus/Ada has a package for that purpose,
based on the Windows 3.1 (16-bit) version of serial access; adapting
that code to use Streams wouldn't be too hard). But, of course, we only
promise to implement new features for customers.

            Randy Brukardt
            R.R. Software, Inc.