[alt.msdos.programmer] _bios_serialcom driving a modem?

mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) (02/03/90)

I'm rewriting an old communications program that was written a long time
ago in Turbo Pascal.  It uses PORT addressing to set up the communications
port.

I don't like port I/O, and so since I have MS C 5.1, I was thinking about
trying the _bios_serialcom routines.  I was hoping to just do a _COM_INIT,
and the use _COM_SEND to drive the modem on COM2.  This doesn't seem to
be happening - the modem just doesn't respond.

So, has anyone done this?  Does anyone has a snipet of code to share?

				Thanks,
				   Dave

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