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Urgent Foxpro DOS COM port
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From
13/07/2006 07:46:33
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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12/07/2006 22:37:04
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
FoxPro Dos
OS:
Windows '95
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01135913
Message ID:
01135963
Views:
11
>I had written a Foxpro DOS for dairy milk collection program in 1995 which is being still used. Now the hardware card which used to communicate with FAT machine has problem. The new interface that the vendor has given is through COM port.
>
>Previously I used a cliper library to communicate with COM Port which I dont have now.
>
>How do I send and read data from COM port in FPD26..
>
>Rajesh

Rajesh,
As far as I remember under win9x you could use low level file functions to read/write COM ports (under NT series even VDM should have access to ports it looks like to be blocked - not sure, has been over 10 years since I last used fpd). Check fopen(),fwrite() etc in help.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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