Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!eli
From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: need help with Turbo C & serial ports!
Message-ID: <1691@spdcc.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 88 11:54:39 GMT
Reply-To: eli@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Elias)
Organization: Irwin Feerst for Vice President headquarters
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hi folks!  thanks again for all the help with the kermit->procomm problem.

my latest program must do serial input & output on a PC...  i'm using
Turbo C.  it has the handy device 'stdaux'.  my program hangs up
immediately when i make the first IO call to stdaux -- DOS error
"error writing to COM1: abort, retry, get a new os ?"  -- you know
the error message i mean, hopefully.

my solution is a bit nonstandard and i'd like to find out why DOS
doesn't like my attempts to read & write the serial port.  my program
works fine when i run it under DRI Concurrent DOS (a real OS, by the way!).

so what is DOS complaining about???  (we know what i'm complaining about!)

thanks in "advance, retry, ignore"...