[Ace-users] [ace-users] ACE streams processing serial port data

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Douglas,

> ( This might be a stupid question, but I'll take my chances :-) )

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> I am assessing the feasibility of a small application that opens a serial port on Win32, reads and processes data from it,
> forwards the results on a socket to another server, gets the responses from the server, processes it back and writes it to
> the serial port.
> 
> I couldn't find an abstraction in ACE for serial ports, in particular Win32 serial port handles. Where should I look?

Please see

ACE_ROOT/ace/TTY_IO.{h,inl,cpp}

and

ACE_ROOT/ace/DEV_*.{h,inl,cpp}

for the ACE wrappers for serial ports.  Please see

ACE_ROOT/examples/IPC_SAP/DEV_SAP

for some examples of how to use this stuff.  

Thanks,

        Doug