[Lazarus] newbie needs help installing Winsoft's component COMPORT

[Bob Axtell]

On 12/22/2013 4:38 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Bob Axtell wrote:
>>>
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>> anybody have a little time to help a 71 yr ole kid just startin' out?
>
> What are you trying to interface to? If you don't need a graphical 
> control I extended FPC's standard serial unit to work with Win-32, I 
> think it's reliable although I usually use the Linux or Solaris 
> variants. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18946
>
I am making a simple connection thru an RS232 LINK, and I have used 
Comport with Delphi6 very successfully in the past. The graphical 
control is needed to make the notebook app easily readable and usable by 
our installer, who has ASUS netbooks with WinXP installed.

Thanks for taking me under your wing.

--Bob

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