how to manage a serial com port using C ?

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how to manage a serial com port using C ?

Forum: Bloodshed Software Forum

Creator: Nobody/Anonymous

Created: 2002-11-26

Updated: 2012-09-26

Nobody/Anonymous - 2002-11-26

how can i program the serial com (1 or 2) port using C mingw (Win32/NT) compiler ?

thanks.

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- Nobody/Anonymous - 2002-11-26
  
  Lookup CreateFile() in the win32 API. Accessing ports directly is forbidden I believe.
  
  Kip
  
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- Nobody/Anonymous - 2002-11-26
  
  The best solution to access ports directly is to write a kernel driver. There are some drivers what do this like
  http://www.geekhideout.com/iodll.shtml
  but do it at your own risk!!!!
  
  tkorrovi
  
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