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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am new to free pascal, but have some experience
with delphi. I wrote a program to control a milling machine (Elektor Profiler,
see elektor.nl/ forum program Doit).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The program is written in delphi-7 ( about 25.000
lines in 20 modules) and runs on MS-Xp. But as MS changes to much in its os's I
want to change to linux as os.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The program uses 2 I/O-ports (serial or usb-serial)
and here I have a problem in translating my program into
free-pascal.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think the forms and screen layouts present no
problem, it will take a lot of re-typing but oke.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The serial-port problem is my main worry as the
programflow depends heavely on the communication with the milling
machine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is: where do I find lib's with
serial-port or usb-port routines which I may use to control the
communication-lines (bits) to the milling machine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piet van der Wal
(PE0PWA).</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>