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From: stergios@rocky.UUCP
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Subject: Re: C code for opening a communications file
Message-ID: <803@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 02:02:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 02:02:26 1987
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Reply-To: stergios@rocky.UUCP (Stergios Marinopoul)
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In article <621@umbc3.UMD.EDU> dipto@umbc3.umd.edu (Dipto Chakravarty) writes:
>
>Expertise needed to open a communications file (COM1) on an IBM PC !!!!!!
>
>My fellow C-pals, I need your help to get  an equivalent of the following 
 rest of basic stuff deleted.

look in the stdio.h file (I think, its been awhile) You should see some 
references to:

	"stdprt" and "stdser" (again, I maybe off on the names).

Just fprintf(stdser,"%c", 'A') to send this out to the serial port with
the appropriate settings chosen from the dos setup command.

Stergios Marinopoulos
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