Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:54:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nigel Megitt <nigelm AT rd DOT bbc DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Serial ports?
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On 11 Feb 1998, Nigel Megitt wrote:

> I'm trying to access COM1 and COM2 as buffers with file pointers, but I can't
> find out how to do this by looking in the Info files. Is there an easy way to
> set the ports up and use them, or do I have to use _bios_serialcom to set up
> each port and then take data byte by byte?

You could use the DJGPP Filesystem Extensions feature.  From the DOS
prompt, type "info libc alpha 'File System'" and read there.