c++ programming evironment

[Trond Danielsen]

On 6/22/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: "Ian Malone" <ibmalone at gmail.com>
> > On 6/21/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> From: "David Fletcher" <fc at fletchersweb.net>
> >>
> >
> >> >
> >> > I'm interested in this thread too, but for different reasons.
> >> >
> >> > We have a looming problem at work, which is a test instrument that's
> >> > controlled by a DOS program on a PC via a serial cable. It works OK but
> >> > serial ports are fast vanishing from PCs especially laptops.
> >>
> >> Um, USB to serial adapters exist. (Two kinds exist, actually. One is
> >> a three wire serial emulation. The other is a full emulation.) These
> >> work remarkably well. I've been using them for over a year now. So
> >> adapting the DOS program to almost anything while maintaining a serial
> >> port interface should be no problem at all for either 'ix or 'indows
> >> environments.
> >>
> >
> > It is a problem for hobbyists though.  I did a project a few years ago
> > that used a parallel port to interface with an A/D convertor and a
> > multiplexer.  This is incredibly easy to program in linux.  You can't
> > do this with USB without interface chips/dongles, and the software
> > side is more complicated.
>
> I've never looked so I'm asking the astonishing question, "You mean
> there are no USB to serial port cable drivers that look like standard
> serial ports to Linux?" Um, maybe someday someone will get motivated
> to do this. It is something likely to be very urgently needed in the
> future. (I suspect all the adapters use the same small number of
> chips which perform this function. So it should not be TOO bad.)
>
> {o.o}
>
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USB to serial port adapters works just like regular serial ports, so
there should be no need for any conversion software.
-- 
Trond Danielsen