[Lazarus] Serial communication??

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Oct 5 09:52:13 CEST 2010


Bo Berglund wrote:

> It looks like my virtual Ubuntu 10 thinks it has a serial port even
> though none has been created by VMWare Workstation. Here is no
> exception when I try to open it....

Try writing a nul (or a syn, or whatever is comparatively harmless in 
your application area) and see if that raises an exception.

As I've already said, you need to get the underlying device access 
sorted out- including control line handling etc.- before you can start 
thinking about higher-level events etc.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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