Serial program urgent !

[Themuppeteer]

Hello,
I urgently need a program to send strings to a com port.
So a program that writes the string that I give it as argument (command line) to a com port also as argument.
I want to program it myself but I have no idea how to start... any help is appreciated.

thnx. Greetz,

The Muppeteer.
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[2ffat]

You didn't mention what OS. It is diffrent for different OS. For example in Win 9x, you could use inport and similar calls but with Win NT, 2K, XP, etc you have to use SetCommState and DCB (device control blocks) and then you can use the com port just like a file and use streams, CreateFile, or whatever.

I've forgotten how to do it in Unix and I would have to look up how I did it in DOS. James P. Cottingham

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[Themuppeteer]

It was for windows 2000 or dos,but I managed to do it meantime with java. They have a great package and clear exmples of reading and writing to the com ports.

http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm

thnx for the reply. Greetz,

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