From: ryot AT bigfoot DOT com (George Ryot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Buffered serial output Message-ID: <37de6e51.2655599@news.clara.net> References: <37D68B29 DOT 25BE3520 AT bham DOT ac DOT uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:07:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.8.92.115 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT clara DOT net X-Trace: nnrp3.clara.net 937260472 195.8.92.115 (Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:07:52 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:07:52 BST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > I'd like to set up a buffer of about 3 kbytes, fill it with numbers and > then transmit them through the com port whilst the processor gets on > with something else. I hoped svasync would be the answer although the > documentation says that output buffering isn't implemented yet. Can > anyone help with these questions : Is there an easy way of implementing > buffered output coms ? Does an alternative library exist which does it ? > Does a more recent version of svasync exist ? Have you tried the BCserio and/or DZcomm libraries? I am a happy SVasync user so I can't make any recommendations about the other libraries but since nobody else has replied I thought this would better than nothing. The relevant resources are possibly linked to from the FAQ, if not you could try the list archives. Also, this post from Eli Zaretskii suggests that you can add buffered output support to SVasync using some features of DJGPP: Subject: Re: SVAsync Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:28:36 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: Please post if you have any success with that approach. -- george