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What To Do First Serial Solutions
serial device connected to the COM2 port.
NEWMODE COM2:9600,N,8,1 <return> or
NEWMODE COM2:1200,E,7,1 <return> etc.
7) Run the Easyc program using COM2.
EASYC COM2 <return>
Any data type at the keyboard will be sent to the device
attached to the serial port. Incoming data from the serial
port is displayed on screen.
Within the EASY programs the following keys can be
used.
F8 prints the COMDEBUG information on screen
F9 clears the screen
F10 exits back to the DOS prompt.
Serial Solutions Is Up and Running!
Configuring Your System._______________________
The power of Serial Solutions is that many serial ports can
be accessed is a simple, unified way. However, Serial Solutions
has to be told about your system so that it can use the serial
ports that are installed.
For each serial port Serial Solutions has to know the
following three pieces of information:-
1) Address. The i/o address of the serial port. ie Where it is
in the system.
2) Handshake. The kind of flow control that is being used by
the external serial device. The flow control, or
handshaking, ensures that no data is lost by only allowing
data to be sent or received when the devices are able to
accept it.
3) Interrupt.
a) Interrupt on Ordinary Serial Port Cards.
The interrupt line used by the serial port. Ideally each
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