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Hello,<br />
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What is the best way to program a serial port on MS-DOS in C?<br />
For example set protocol to 9600,n,8,1,xon and output &quot;hello world&quot;?<br />
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Thanks for your time,<br />
James
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Hello,

What is the best way to program a serial port on MS-DOS in C?
For example set protocol to 9600,n,8,1,xon and output "hello world"?

Thanks for your time,
James

Programming serial (COM1) port on MS-DOS?

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