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: a07f3367d7,b321573c2e5269d2 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Clubley Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Asynchronous I/O on a serial device Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4pjzwDT2MPp9AkNxUo/C4Q"; logging-data="24961"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/hYBsjV5SDG/NG894CgxC14a/tvQktDM=" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (VMS/Multinet) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9g3pWVRWKAerS5wdrnaOnnnJzIM= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19856 Date: 2011-06-15T17:02:56+00:00 List-Id: On 2011-06-14, Kim Rostgaard Christensen wrote: > On 2011-06-12 23:01, anon@att.net wrote: >> To connect to the UART device directly you should use to use the >> Gnat.Sockets.* or AdaSockets packages. >> >> Or you could use PolyORB packages which contains a number of serial >> I/O packages. Like: GNAT.Serial_Communications; > > The GNAT.Serial_Communications is just what I needed, although It gives > some extra conversion overhead. > You may wish to read through a thread from about 2 months ago about this package in which it was discovered that it is forcing RTS/CTS flow control. This will cause you problems unless your device is using RTS/CTS flow control. Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world