[Harbour-users] serial communications

[harbour-users at harbour-project.org]

Hello, 
 
I am trying to get serial commincations working.  
 
I have an older version of xharbour with xhbcomm.  I bought xharbour becase
it has serial support.  After paying for it, I was told  that the particular
library that I need, xhbcomm, is not source code available, without
explanation.  I suppose that this is because it not open source licensed.
This means that without source code, I cannot upgrade.  
 
I have tried to use the hbcomm.lib, but it always crashed with an "abnormal
program termination" message.  According to a previous post, this is because
my input parameters are incorrect.  I have tried different parameters, but
it still crashes.  
 
Next, I tried telepathy, but it appears to support Linux and OS/2, not
Windows32.  
 
Now I am trying testprt1.prg in contrib/hbwin.  I have two computers connect
via null modem cable.  The owinport:write method seems to work, but
oWinport:read does not.  
 
Any suggestions greatly appreciated, thanks, mattfriend88
<mailto:mattfriend88 at yahoo.com>   at yahoo.com