Reading data from COM ports

[Olaf Schmidtmann]

Hi Sarah,

thank you - that´s very kind :-)
John Cuccio got your serial stack already and sent it to me. I will check it
out though I think Rev isn´t problem. It seems that the device uses a
non-standard way of communication.
greetinx,
Olaf

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Olaf Schmidtmann
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Reichelt [mailto:sarahr at genesearch.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:16 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Reading data from COM ports
> 
> 
> I have a serial port test stack that I can send if you are 
> interested. I 
> have submitted it to the Revolution user contributions but it hasn't 
> appeared yet, so I can send it to you directly if you would like.
> 
> It allows you to specify various serial port parameters and send & 
> receive data.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 05:43  am, Olaf Schmidtmann wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am looking for a way to read data from a COM port 
> continuously. The 
> > device
> > measures electrical resistance and delivers values. Sadly I 
> don´t have 
> > any
> > interface specs so I want to find a way to interpret what I find 
> > myself. The
> > software this thing normally uses is awful!
> > I don´t know if this is covered by the use of 'read from file 
> > "COM<n>:"' I
> > tested it and didn´t get any usable data although the 
> device works with 
> > its
> > software. Does anybody have experiences with that?
> > Thank you very much,
> > Olaf
> 
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