Technical information

Serial Solution Reference
Serial Solutions consists of the following disks and programs.
The Serial Solutions Disk 1 disk contains:-
a) NewCOM.SYS
The dos device driver providing 16 COM ports as with
buffered interrupt driven i/o and RS232, 422 and 485 style
flow control.
b) NewMODE.EXE
Allows command line reading and setting of baud rates etc
for up to 32 ports.
c) EASYC.EXE and EASYC.C
EASYBAS.EXE and EASYBAS.BAS
EASYPAS.EXE and EASYPAS.PAS
Get you up and running in 5 minutes worked examples
providing serial terminals with direct COMDEBUG
support. Use these FIRST.
d) NewCOM24.SYS
NewCOM32.SYS
Version of Newcom.sys providing support for 24 and 32
serial ports.
The Serial Solutions Utility disk contains:-
a) COMTEST.EXE
ADDRCOM1.EXE
ADDRCOM2.EXE
ADDRCOM3.EXE
ADDRCOM4.EXE
for testing and verifying serial ports and i/o addresses
b) RS232.EXE and RS232.BAS
RS422.EXE and RS422.BAS
RS485.EXE and RS485.BAS
Virtually foolproof but extremely limited communications
programs for proving wiring and cable connections.
The Serial Solutions Disk 2 also contains the following in depth
worked examples for experienced Serial Solutions users after
they have mastered the Easy Disk examples:-
Intro-5