Re: Need your help. How to use ada communicate with hardware? ---A beginner

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

kz105@student.cs.york.ac.uk (Jamie) writes:

> i'm recently learning ada. we have a project needed using computer to
> control a machine. the machine has a microcontroller. i need to write
> some program to communication with it via RS232 serial link. for
> example, i need to ask the status of machine by sending a request, and
> the machine will return a string to the computer. but i don't actually
> know how to use ada to communicate hardware, becasue i'm a beginner of
> programming. some body said that there is a binding to comms port.
> could anyone please show me how to use it with some examples. Thanks.

You need to say what operating system you are using. 

I'll go out on a not-very-long limb and assume Windows. If that is
true, you can use my binding to the Windows comm ports:

http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/win32_com_ports.zip

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-- Stephe