From:	Robert M Sieg <siegr AT er4 DOT eng DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	HP-IB communication
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:52:52 -0400
Organization:	The Ohio State University
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Hello,

I have a question regarding communicating with the HP-IB 82335B card.  The
bundled software includes libraries for Turbo C and Microsoft C (probably
a little old, not the C++ versions, and definately *not* the windows
versions). I inherited the card from a previous project, and I'm thinking
of various uses for it.  Just for kicks, I tried using the C libraries
with DJGPP and it gave an error when looking at the header files (i.e, I'm
pretty sure it never even got to my actual test code before giving up).

Is what I was trying to do feasible?  I guess my question is, can DJGPP
link with libraries written for T-C or MS C in a relatively simple manner? 
More generally, is there some standardization of object files/libraries in
the MS-DOS world? 

Also, the bundle includes some DDE drivers, which as I understand allow
communication between windows-based programs.  I'm assuming DJGPP can't
talk to this driver, since it is a DOS-based compiler. (??) 

Thanks for any information,
  
Rob Sieg
The Ohio State University
Department of Electrical Engineering
205 Dreese Laboratory
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1272

Phone:  (614) 292-1721
  fax:  (614) 292-7596
email:  siegr AT er4 DOT eng DOT ohio-state DOT edu
  www:  http://er4www.eng.ohio-state.edu/~siegr

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