leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (02/01/90)
ld@vax3.iti.org (Larry Dunn) writes:
< I am working on a project using Turbo Pascal. One
< of the requirements is that I send a line of text
< to a serial printer. The program is very large
< ~30k compiled lines of code.
< The Institue has bought Async Manager. The problem
< with Async Manager is that it addes too much code
< to compile the program (OUT OF MEMORY).
< I would like to know if there is a way (a small way)
< to write text to COM ports.
Sure, use DOS to re-route LPT1: to COM1:!
mode com1:9600,n,8,1,p
mode lpt1:=com1:
TP will cheerfully send the data to LPT1 and DOS will send it to COM1
instead. True, your program isn't doing it, but it should suffice for
your purposes.
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