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Fopen() and communication port
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10/09/1998 08:35:20
Mark Kessler
U.S.M.C. - Network Operation Center
Quantico, Virginia, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00134973
Message ID:
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>How do I open the serial port with fopen?
>
>I need to access a timer through the serial port and cannot find information about how to do this with the standard VFP 5.0 Lib.
>
>Thanks.

Hi Mark,

You cannot use FOpen() for comm, but you can use MSComm32.ocx. It's not too difficult, if your application isn't. You might find my little paper about this interesting. Look for 'Serial' in Files.

HTH,

Marc.

If things have the tendency to go your way, do not worry. It won't last. Jules Renard.
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