From: Robert M Sieg Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: HP-IB communication Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:52:52 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 33 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: amide.eng.ohio-state.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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