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Serial Programming For Beginners
Issue: 3.3 (January/February 2005)
Author: Aaron Ballman
Author Bio: Contrary to popular belief, Aaron gets let out of the Cave of Networking once in a while so he can work on Serial programming projects. While out of his cave, he likes to find new ways he can re-program his pickup truck using REALbasic's Serial control.
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Have you ever wanted to write some software that interfaces with a physical device? For example, have you ever thought of writing a program that tells you why your "check engine" light is on? If you have, then what you want to do is some serial programming. This article is going to teach you the basics about serial programming, starting off with common definitions right through to how to structure and write your application using REALbasic.
Serial programming is the general term that is used to describe an application which communicates with a device via a serial connection. For example, if you want your application to talk directly to a modem so that you can establish a dial-up connection, or if you need to send control codes to a printer over a wire, you will be writing a serial application. The list of serial programming examples goes on and on, but all the examples have something in common which is the crux of what serial programming is all about: you are writing software that will talk via a wire of some sort to a piece of hardware.
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