I am doing a project which requires serial port to be acessed in winxp.Please help me
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18 years ago
Serail port in winxp
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18 years ago
If your problem is that NT based OS's (2K/XP) don't allow direct hardware access, you could try this:
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Regards, Chris
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18 years ago
How do you need to access the serial port, and what are you needing to do?
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18 years ago
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:
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You will also need Paula Tomlinson's program LOADDRV, described in her May
1995 article in Windows/DOS Developer's Journal (now Windows Developer's Journal).ftp://ftp.wdj.com/pub/1995/may95.zip
Also see:
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HTH,
B.C.
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18 years ago
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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