Re: listening serial port

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From: "Floyd Burger" <floyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 17:18:22 -0700

Use the WaitCommEvent API from a separate thread. WaitCommEvent will return
when one of the events defined in SetCommMask is triggered.

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Floyd

"Mark Albourgh" <malbourgh1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d2n81b$jr9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Does anyone know a way of listening to serial port?
> I know how to read data from it, but only know
> to check the port for the data constantly which occupies cpu a lot.
> I need this to receive data from a machine.
>
> Thx
>
>

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References:
- listening serial port
  - From: Mark Albourgh

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