Help: how to output to a port such as a RS232?

John Gordon gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Wed Jun 12 09:31:06 AEST 1991


jli at udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Staff-Jinghong _ Li) writes:

>Help needed:  would someone tell me how to send output
>to a port such as a RS232?  Any sepcial commands? 
>If the address of the port is known, hwo to declare 
>it as a FILE pointer? ...

	Well, if you are using Turbo C on a PC, there are some functions:
inport(), inportb(), outport(), outportb() (I think those are the names)
whose uses are to read and write from ports.


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