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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