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Re: Serial Port Support

Realistically anything that touches hardware directly such as serial ports cannot be easily supported in Carbon. That said MacOS X does have a set of serial port API's which are fairly close to the posix serial API's. In fact the serial api's on X makes porting much of the posix serial code out there as simple as changing the target in a makefile. DTS has sample code on how to find and access the serial ports on X.

Roger


At 11:11 AM -0400 6/26/01, Chris Smolinski wrote:
Is there any chance of support for serial ports being added back to
Carbon? This is essential for a lot of scientific and other applications
where it's necessary to communicate with data acquisition devices, etc.

It seems very odd that Apple targets OSX towards scientists, and then
removes support for a critical key area.

Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/
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