[Q] carbon, IO kit and serial port programming

[tom]

i'm looking for some OSX code that talks to a serial port.

I've found some Apple sample code but that's for a modem and I wondered
anyone could point me to some code that doesn't need modifying.

Any help is greatly appreciated,


tom

[Mike]

tom wrote:

>i'm looking for some OSX code that talks to a serial port.

You could always drop down to pure Posix and treat it like a file.
The usual open/close/read/write will work, with some extras like 'fcntl'
and 'termios'. Check the man pages, or get a Posix programming
book from the library.

[David Phillip Oster]

In article <bihc4v$ni4$1@bob.news.rcn.net>, Mike <mghall@enteract.com>
wrote:

> tom wrote:
>

> >i'm looking for some OSX code that talks to a serial port.

>
> You could always drop down to pure Posix and treat it like a file.
> The usual open/close/read/write will work, with some extras like 'fcntl'
> and 'termios'. Check the man pages, or get a Posix programming
> book from the library.

And make sure you follow the directions in Apple's documentation about
not hard coding /dev/tty names into your program, but instead use the
approved system calls to look them up at run-time.

[tom]

In article <jpdjajadiningrat-A4BD02.00594127082003@reader1.tiscali.nl>,
tom <jpdjajadiningrat@yahoo.com> wrote:

> i'm looking for some OSX code that talks to a serial port.
>
> I've found some Apple sample code but that's for a modem and I wondered
> anyone could point me to some code that doesn't need modifying.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
>
> tom

mike, david,

thanks for the replies.

I was also pointed to the AMSerial library:

[url]http://www.harmless.de/cocoa.html[/url]


Tom