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From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Windows Serial Ports
9 Apr 1998 23:33:03 -0700 :
Message-ID: <199804092204.PAA00627.cygnus.gnu-win32@skaro.cygnus.com>
References: <3528B8A0 DOT AA246D22 AT lsil DOT com>
To: johnm AT lsil DOT com (John Massingham)
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

John Massingham wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried talking to the serial ports under gnuwin32?
> 
> If so, how did you do it, can you make use of mscomm.dll etc
> in order to have access to MS comm classes eg comm1.port = 1
> or can you just write directly to the hardware at address 
> 0x3F8 for example?

You should be able to just open "comn" where n is a number from 1 to 4
and then communicate with it normally...

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