Moritz Herrmann wrote: > I'm working on a little c program to receive and save strings from the > serial-port into a local file on a Windows XP/2003 Server machine. > The program is working very well on a linux machine but if I try to run it > under windows I just get stupid characters like:
If you want to use the serial port under Cygwin you need to open /dev/ttyS1 and not "com2". Remember that Cygwin is trying to emulate a posix environment. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html You can in fact open the serial devices as "com1", "com2" etc. But in doing so you implicily tell Cygwin that you are going to use Windows native methods to access the port, and so things like tcgetattr() and tcsetattr() will have no effect -- you would have to use the native win32 API serial port functions. That is why it only works if you first initialize the port with hyperterminal. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
