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Sebastián Perez Escribano

Communication with serial port

Hi list,
I need to have a communication with serial port, any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Terry Raymond

RE: Communication with serial port

Look at the Serial parcel in the contributed directory.

Terry

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastián Perez Escribano [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:47 AM
> To: vwnc
> Subject: Communication with serial port
>
> Hi list,
> I need to have a communication with serial port, any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance

Joachim Geidel

Re: Communication with serial port

In reply to this post by Sebastián Perez Escribano

Sebastián Perez Escribano schrieb am 27.12.2007 15:47:
> Hi list,
> I need to have a communication with serial port, any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Have a look at the parcel "Serial" in the Contributed directory of the
VisualWorks distribution. I haven't used it, so I don't know if it is
sufficient for your needs.

From what I have seen on the net, there is another parcel called
NTOSSupportApp which used to be available from Key technologies and from
the UIUC VisualWorks wiki. It's probably for Windows only. Both sites
are no longer accessible, but maybe someone reading this list can send
you a copy (Travis?). Search Google
http://www.google.de/search?q=VisualWorks+serial+port
and look at the cache for the first hit.

There is a book by Ying Bai covering Serial Port programming which has a
whole chapter (starting at page 659) with an in-depth description of how
to do it yourself with VisualWorks 7 on Windows. Google has a preview:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iJzje_1tJA4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=visualworks+%22serial+port%22+ying+bai

HTH
Joachim Geidel

Randy Coulman

Re: Communication with serial port

On Dec 27, 2007 7:53 AM, Joachim Geidel <[hidden email]> wrote:

From what I have seen on the net, there is another parcel called
NTOSSupportApp which used to be available from Key technologies and from
the UIUC VisualWorks wiki. It's probably for Windows only. Both sites
are no longer accessible, but maybe someone reading this list can send
you a copy (Travis?). Search Google
http://www.google.de/search?q=VisualWorks+serial+port
and look at the cache for the first hit.

There is a version of this package in the public repository. I have no idea how well it works, or how old it is. Once we (Key) cut over to Linux for our products, we stopped maintaining the package, so use it at your own risk.

Randy

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Travis Griggs-3

Re: Communication with serial port

On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Randy Coulman wrote:

>
> On Dec 27, 2007 7:53 AM, Joachim Geidel
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >From what I have seen on the net, there is another parcel called
> NTOSSupportApp which used to be available from Key technologies and
> from
> the UIUC VisualWorks wiki. It's probably for Windows only. Both sites
> are no longer accessible, but maybe someone reading this list can send
> you a copy (Travis?). Search Google
> http://www.google.de/search?q=VisualWorks+serial+port
> and look at the cache for the first hit.
>
> There is a version of this package in the public repository. I have
> no idea how well it works, or how old it is. Once we (Key) cut over
> to Linux for our products, we stopped maintaining the package, so
> use it at your own risk.

We implemented this for Windows NT. It worked pretty well. For serial
ports. I came to loathe Serial ports because of this experience. But
it works, and exposes all of the win32 APIs. I would recommend it
strongly over the old parcel that comes in the compat directory.

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"Some people are like slinkies, not really good for much, but they can
bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."

bernhardHoefner

Re: [vwnc] Communication with serial port

Does someone have a working implementation for communication via RS232
on WIN-XP-platforms? The package "Serial" coming with vwnc7.6 is on
pc-platforms only available for OS2 and the "NTOSSupportApp" package
also does not work on my computer. NTOSSupportApp answers to "SerialPort
named: 'COM8:'" with an unhandled exception "Message not understood:
#lastOSError" (but the actual error should be a SerialPortError "Unable
to open serial port COM8").
My serial port COM8 is an RS232-USB-adapter and the connection works
well with Microsofts hyperterminal.
In early 90th I worked with a former implementation of the
"serial"-Parcel and this worked, but under ST80 REL4 and REL4 does not
run on my WIN-XP. Any solution?

Regards, Bernhard

Travis Griggs schrieb:

>
> On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Randy Coulman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 27, 2007 7:53 AM, Joachim Geidel <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>> >From what I have seen on the net, there is another parcel called
>> NTOSSupportApp which used to be available from Key technologies and from
>> the UIUC VisualWorks wiki. It's probably for Windows only. Both sites
>> are no longer accessible, but maybe someone reading this list can send
>> you a copy (Travis?). Search Google
>> http://www.google.de/search?q=VisualWorks+serial+port
>> and look at the cache for the first hit.
>>
>> There is a version of this package in the public repository. I have
>> no idea how well it works, or how old it is. Once we (Key) cut over
>> to Linux for our products, we stopped maintaining the package, so use
>> it at your own risk.
>
> We implemented this for Windows NT. It worked pretty well. For serial
> ports. I came to loathe Serial ports because of this experience. But it
> works, and exposes all of the win32 APIs. I would recommend it strongly
> over the old parcel that comes in the compat directory.
>
> --
> Travis Griggs
> Objologist
> "Some people are like slinkies, not really good for much, but they can
> bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."
>

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