Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Stephen and Jerry, that helps. I just don't want to implement something and then find out I am getting bad data, or else incomplete data. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > Mark and space are the two possible levels of a single bit. Mark corresponds > to a logical

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread Jerry Jensen
Mark and space are the two possible levels of a single bit. Mark corresponds to a logical 1 and in RS-232 is a *negative* voltage. Space is a logical 0, a positive voltage. Parity is an extra bit tacked onto a word as rudimentary error checking. 7 bits even parity uses the extra bit to make the

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
Serial ports are an inexact science, especially with imbedded systems. Just jiggle the handle until it works and be happy when it does. Probably the designers of the phone system did away with parity checks and handshaking because they had trouble implementing it and is not needed for control appl

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
Serial ports are an inexact science, especially with imbedded systems. Just jiggle the handle until it works and be glad when it does. Probably the designers of the phone system did away with parity checks and handshaking because they had trouble implementing it and is not needed for control appli

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I noticed Sarah's stack has for parity, "None, Odd, Even". I am dealing with an old phone system that uses "space" but there is also "mark". What is the significance of this, and does parity even matter? I have the stack set to even now, and have had it set to none and I still seem to

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
This worked famously Stephen, Sarah! I am really tempted to write a call accounting app right now... Bob On Aug 10, 2012, at 6:03 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Sarah's serial stack > > go URL "http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/SerialTest.rev"; > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Bob Sneidar w

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-10 Thread stephen barncard
Sarah's serial stack go URL "http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/SerialTest.rev"; On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. > > Has anyone written a serial port library? I would be happy to pay for it. > What I want to do is replace our call accounting software with something I >

Serial Port Access

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Has anyone written a serial port library? I would be happy to pay for it. What I want to do is replace our call accounting software with something I write. We don't need much, just departmentalized reports for charge backs, so I can do that pretty simply in LC, but I am not very hip on