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Serial Solutions Terminal Emulators
Chapter 6
Terminal Emulators.
Introduction.____________
Two sets of sample programs are included with Software
Solutions. These are the EASY programs and the TERM
programs.
The ’EASY’ programs EASYC, EASYBAS and EASYPAS
should be every users first stop when encountering Serial
Solutions. They are short, easy to understand and they work
well. By opening a file to the COMn device and performing
standard file read and write commands data is sent and received
from the serial port out to the external devices.
Use and learn from the Easy programs FIRST!
The TERM programs are a set of terminal emulation programs
written in C (Cterm), Assembly language (Aterm), Pascal
(Pasterm), BASIC (BASterm) and FORTRAN (FORterm). Their
main purpose is to demonstrate serial port programming in a
variety of languages, and are also useful tools for using serial
devices. They are long, involved but they cover virtually every
call to NewBIOS. Tackle them only after you have discovered
something you cannot do using the EASY programs.
All the TERM programs were written to behave in exactly
the same way, (except for the get and put commands, only
present in Cterm), so the use of the programs is covered once in
this chapter. Subsequent chapters discuss the way that the
individual programs work.
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