Serail port in winxp

If your problem is that NT based OS's (2K/XP) don't allow direct hardware access, you could try this:

Regards, Chris

How do you need to access the serial port, and what are you needing to do?

GIVEIO.SYS driver, described in a Dr. Dobbs Journal May 1996 article "Direct Port I/O and Windows NT" written by Dale Roberts available from:

You will also need Paula Tomlinson's program LOADDRV, described in her May

ftp://ftp.wdj.com/pub/1995/may95.zip

Also see:

HTH,

B.C.

Unlike many other devices, there are very few features of the serial port you can't get at using the native win32 interfaces. For some examples, see the program I wrote while trying to figure out the interface of COM2 pins on my asus motherboard:

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