serialput and serialread for C++

[Omegachi]

what is the syntax for sending data to a serial port and reading data from a serial port in C or C++? also, does anyone know how to use the curses library (can run 2 programs at the same time) in C?

help please, thanks!

 

[singh]

This is not natively supported in C/C++. Unless you're using a cross-platform library, the program will have to use platform-specific API calls to accomplish this. On *nix, I believe a serial port is treated similar to a file and you can open and write to it using the same calls as you would to read/write to a file.

 

[Omegachi]

how do i do this usiing unix then...

 

[singh]

What kind of device are you trying to interact with?

Here's a link to Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/serial/