Al 20/03/11 19:47, En/na johnelee1...@googlemail.com ha escrit: > Paul and other responders, thanks. Think I'm a bit clearer how to do it now. > > q1) My com device is an energy monitor that sends a block of xml data, 1000 > bytes or so, every 6 secs. Guess this means I might be better 'using getbuf > or whatever it's called in synaser, rather than single char at a time? Any > examples of using this welcome.
If each line of xml has a terminator (say, crlf), you can use RecvTerminated to read line by line. Or, you can use RecvBufferEx, RecvBufferString, RecvPacket. All methods are documented in synaser source. > > q2) does synaser work on win98/me? No idea. I works under xp. Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
