From: dan DOT hensley AT sdrc DOT com (Dan Hensley)
Subject: How do I open a COM port in b20.1?
17 Dec 1998 01:35:10 -0800
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Here's kind of a stupid question:  How do I open a serial port (COM1)
using Cygwin-b20.1?  I've tried a number of things, but nothing seems to
work.  First a little background:  the end result is I am trying to port
a program that uses select() to poll the keyboard and a COM port until
one of the two has input.  After reading the archives, I discovered that
select() and serial ports were broken, so I just downloaded the new dll
and replaced the old one.  Here's what I've tried:

set CYGWIN=notty (actually, just didn't set CYGWIN).
I opened "COM1" using open() and tried to read() from it after
tcsetattr().  Also tried using select()--it could read the keyboard
fine, but not the COM port.

set CYGWIN=tty
Opened "/dev/tty00" the same way as above.  I discovered that this seems
to be the keyboard device.  I tried ttyS0 and cua0, but these don't
exist.  And of course, "ls /dev" shows nothing.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Last week I also tried notty,
and opened COM1 using fopen().  When connected to another computer with
a null modem cable, I was able to receive characters using Cgywin-b20.0.

I have searched the archives for almost 2 hours and read many messages,
but haven't found answers to my questions yet.

By the way, here's the code I'm playing with:

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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define BUFFERSIZ 30

void main( void ) {

  int   i, j,
   idBarc,
   iStat,
   iRet ;

  fd_set  rfds ;
  struct  timeval tv ;

  struct termios termios ;

  char   cDevNm[20]="/dev/tty01",
   pcBuf[101],
   cBuf[BUFFERSIZ]="Enter something: " ;


 /*
  * Open the serial port for the barcode reader device */

  if ( (idBarc =  open( cDevNm, O_RDWR )) == -1 ) {
    printf( "Cannot open device %s\n", cDevNm ) ;
    exit( 0 ) ;
  }
  else {
    printf( "Opened barcode device %s\n", cDevNm ) ;
  }

 /*
  * Get the serial port attributes */

  if( (iStat  =  tcgetattr( idBarc, &termios ) ) == -1 ) {
    printf( "Cannot get port attributes...\n" ) ;
    exit( 0 ) ;
  }
  else {
    printf( "Got serial port attributes\n" ) ;
    printf( "===== Here's the original setup =====\n" ) ;
    printf( "  termios_iflag=%o\n", termios.c_iflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_oflag=%o\n", termios.c_oflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_cflag=%o\n", termios.c_cflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_lflag=%o\n", termios.c_lflag ) ;
    printf( "=====================================\n" ) ;
  }

 /*
  * Set the serial port attributes */

  termios.c_iflag =  IGNBRK ;
/*      ICRNL ; */
/*  termios.c_oflag =  (tcflag_t) (NULL) ; */
  termios.c_cflag =  CREAD |
      CS7 |
      PARENB |
      B9600 ;
  termios.c_lflag =  ICANON ;

    printf( "===== Here's what I want to set =====\n" ) ;
    printf( "  termios_iflag=%o\n", termios.c_iflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_oflag=%o\n", termios.c_oflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_cflag=%o\n", termios.c_cflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_lflag=%o\n", termios.c_lflag ) ;
    printf( "=====================================\n" ) ;

  if( (iStat  =  tcsetattr( idBarc, TCSANOW, &termios ) ) == -1 ) {
    printf( "Cannot set port attributes...\n" ) ;
    exit( 0 ) ;
  }
  else {
    printf( "Set serial port attributes\n" ) ;
  }

 /*
  * Flush the buffer */

  if( (iStat  =  tcflush( idBarc, TCIOFLUSH ) ) == -1 ) {
    printf( "Cannot flush the buffer...\n" ) ;
    exit( 0 ) ;
  }

 /*
  * Get the serial port attributes */

  if( (iStat  =  tcgetattr( idBarc, &termios ) ) == -1 ) {
    printf( "Cannot get port attributes...\n" ) ;
    exit( 0 ) ;
  }
  else {
    printf( "Got serial port attributes\n" ) ;
    printf( "==== Here's what actually got set ===\n" ) ;
    printf( "  termios_iflag=%o\n", termios.c_iflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_oflag=%o\n", termios.c_oflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_cflag=%o\n", termios.c_cflag ) ;
    printf( "  termios_lflag=%o\n", termios.c_lflag ) ;
    printf( "=====================================\n" ) ;
  }

 /*
  * Read from the COM port */

  printf( "Reading from the COM port\n" ) ;
  iStat  =  read( idBarc, (void *) pcBuf, 100 ) ;
  printf( "iStat=%d\n", iStat ) ;
  if( iStat != 0 )
    printf( "--->Read this: %s\n", pcBuf ) ;

 /*
  * Initialize a few things */

  FD_ZERO( &rfds ) ;
  FD_SET( 0, &rfds ) ;
  FD_SET( idBarc, &rfds ) ;

/*
 * Wait up to 5 seconds */
 tv.tv_sec =  5 ;
 tv.tv_usec =  0 ;

 iRet  =  select( 2, &rfds, NULL, NULL, &tv ) ;

/*
 * Find out where input came from */

 if( iRet ) {
   printf( "Data is available now " ) ;
   /* FD_ISSET( 0, &rfds ) will be true now */
   if( FD_ISSET( 0, &rfds ) ) printf( "from the keyboard\n" ) ;
   if( FD_ISSET( idBarc, &rfds ) ) printf( "from the scanner\n" ) ;
   printf( "\n" ) ;
 }
 else
   printf( "No data within 5 seconds\n" ) ;

 /*
  * Close the COM port */

  close( idBarc ) ;

 exit( 0 ) ;

}
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Thanks,
Dan

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