Re: Win32Forth and COM Ports

From	stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Win32Forth and COM Ports
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Date	2012-07-16 21:42 +0000

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:03:29 -0700 (PDT), rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I'm trying to use a com0com virtual serial port driver to let me connect Wi=
>n32Forth to another serial port program and it doesn't seem to work.  COM16=
> and COM18 are defined by the virtual port driver and I can open them using=
> RealTerm.  When I try to open one of them in Win32Forth it says it failed.=
> =20
>
>Any idea if the problem is one of serial port number being too high or is t=
>here just some incompatibility?  I have another driver I can try if I have =
>to. =20

For ports greater than 9 you have to use
  \\.\COMx
instead of
  COMx

Strange but true, and regularly documented. You could, of course,
use a Forth that handles all this and much more for you.

Stephen

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Win32Forth and COM Ports rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 12:03 -0700
  Re: Win32Forth and COM Ports rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 14:17 -0700
  Re: Win32Forth and COM Ports stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-07-16 21:42 +0000
    Re: Win32Forth and COM Ports rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 15:52 -0700

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