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I/O in 5.1

Bill Schwab-2
Ian,

Have you done any serial communications in 5.1?  If its _easy_ for you to
do, I'd be interested in knowing if all works as before.  From that, you can
tell that my serial comms are not behaving as before, but there are many
possible causes for the problems.  To make things more fun, I'm using a
derivative of my old fork from your original serial comms package - whatever
is wrong, it is certainly not your doing :)

I don't see any newly overlapped calls (in 5.1 vs. 5.0), at least not
reading and writing.  Something could have altered the structure layouts,
though at least the sizes checked with a 5.0 image.  I have your current
serial goodie, and will try to match up the definitions just in case.  So
far, I don't see any compilation failures or incomplete initialization.
Maybe I failed to load something important.

Another strong possibility is that the problem could be a result of my
deferred actions experiment.  Temporarily disabling that did not make a
difference, though I plan to rebuild from 5.0 packages just in case.

Any other ideas?

Have a good one,

Bill

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Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
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Re: I/O in 5.1

Ian Bartholomew-18
Bill,

> Have you done any serial communications in 5.1?  If its _easy_ for
> you to do, I'd be interested in knowing if all works as before.

It's yonks since I did anything with the original SerialComms package -
I just haven't got any uses for it now.  I do occasionally use the
simpler version to perform status checks on my modem (and that appears
to work correctly under 5.1 and WinXP) but it's a very simple procedure
and doesn't stress anything.

I'm quite willing to have a play with the last version of my original
serial package and see what happens.  It will only be communicating
between my XP and 2000 boxes (and will be dependent on whether I can
find the serial connection lead) but it should show if the basics are
still valid.

I'll get back to you by mail when I've tried it out.

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Ian