Re: A89: Re: Serial Communication in ASM


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Re: A89: Re: Serial Communication in ASM




>Thanks for taking the time to try and answer my question.
>
>But, that is not the problem.  I wrote the particular PC program
>that I am using.  It does not have anything to do with VT100 or any
>other standard.  It simply displays whatever is received at the
>COM port.  And it displays nothing.  Even if it were receiving
>binary rather than ascii, it would show something.  But I get no
>indication that anything is received at all.
>
>In the example I used, I transmitted a pure 'string' so even if it
>were in a binary format, that format would have produced an ascii
>string.
>
>I think the problem lies in the fact that there must be some
>handshake thing that I am not doing.  I did read something about
>a low level control of the link port, but I assumed that the
>transmit() function just filled the transmit buffer and that was
>blindly sent to the link port.  Apparently that is not so.

I've made some successful link stuff, and I lifted the SendByte and
RecieveByte routenes from Tetris.  I haven't tried hooking the calc to a
computer, but I can talk to a modem with them.

	--Nate


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