From: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
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Subject: Re: Compatible Serial Communication
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:34:53 +0100
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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:35:54 -0700, Matthew Mastracci
<mmastrac AT acs DOT ucalgary DOT ca> wrote:

> What would be the best way to create a (relatively) portable serial
> communications library?  By portable, I mean that I'd like it to run on
> DOS and Linux with as little modification as possible.

I don't know if it's the best way, but I think using the termios
functions on Linux and implementing them on DJGPP would be a good way.
Right now, DJGPP does have the termios functions, but they are
implemented only for the console.

I don't know how one uses the termios functions for serial
communications, but there's a free library called Spunk in the Estic
sources at http://www.musoftware.com/estic/ . It contains a serial
communications class for many systems, including DJGPP, Linux and Win32.

Regards...
	Michael