socket and serial port

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Thu Jun 17 20:55:43 EDT 2004


On Jun 17, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> It turns out that you can call
>
>  set the serialControlString to "dtr=off rts=on"
>  open driver thePort for binary write
>
> to toggle dtr/rts even if the port is already open. No need to close
> the port before the call to serialControlString. Serves me right for
> reading (and believing) the documentation...

This is a great tip!

On what OS/platform have you seen it work?

Dar Scott



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