Re: SerialPort and hardware flow control

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So where did you enable the handshaking?...I think I am doing the exact same
stupid thing as you!!!!!!
--
EB


"Etienne Fortin" wrote:

> I'M SO DAMN STUPID!!!!!!!
>
> I looked-up how to change handshaking in the doc. I knew exactly the option
> to set. I assumed I did it. But I wasn't!!! It wasn't set at all!!! I should
> have looked at that possibility right at the begining. Can you imagine
> something more pathetic from a programmer? :)
>
> Anyway, now it works perfectly.
>
> Thanks for pointing the obvious thing I should have checked before.
>
> Etienne
>
>
>
>
> "*** Grier" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What serial port class? Is this System.IO.Ports in VS 2005? If so, this
> > may be a bug and perhaps it should be reported via beta feedback. I am
> > assuming here that you have enabled hardware flow control? If not... Then
> > what you are seeing is the expected operation. Certainly, no serial class
> > should assume that you want to use HW flow control, you actually have to
> > enable its use.
> >
> > If some other class, perhaps you need to notify the person who wrote that
> > class? (same caveat as above).
> >
> > ***
> >
> > --
> > Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)
> >
> > See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.
> >
> > Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 4th
> > Edition ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages) published July 2004. See
> > www.mabry.com/vbpgser4 to order.
> >
> >
> >
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