[fpc-pascal] x86.pp and oldlinux.pp

[Holger Bruns]

Jeff Wormsley schrieb:
>
> If you really need to go that route, with full access to 100% of the 
> UART, perhaps this book would help (chapter 6 is on serial device 
> drivers).
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/yjk4c9j*

I'll follow your link.

>
> Just know that you will have to do that part of your application in C 
> as a device driver, not with FPC.  FPC does not, and cannot, override 
> the base operating system restrictions regarding port access.  
> Expecting it to do so just because TP under DOS would let you do that 
> won't make it happen, either.

I don't understand a programming language as a tool to override an 
operating system. This is not my goal. I ask for some clues to deal with 
ports and UART devices already connected to a computer.

> And insulting comments like "Under the bottom line, it is embarrassing 
> time consuming for a newbie like me, to work successfully with serial 
> ports on linux." directed to the FPC list won't change that either.

I don't understand this quote as insulting. A newbie on programming 
languages must learn how to write working code. This is always time 
consuming even on computers with less restrictions. Thanks to Marc 
Santhoff, I have got working sample code to use the serial unit 
successfully. But I need to mention, the comments on procedures in this 
unit are not error free. Despite to these comments the procedure 
"seropen" returns -1, if a serial port cannot be found, and not zero.

My small selfwritten functions on serial ports are working now.

Holger