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Expert: Pat Murphy - 2/10/2004


Question
I want to know the complete pin details for the serial port communications.
I want to communicate through the serial port, operating directly upon the pins.
I want to transmit data, receive data, change voltage levels of specific pins.
How can this be done using visual basic 6 ?


Answer
Here are the PIN Numbers:
Standard
http://www.infonewsindia.com/pinout/#5

USB Adapter:
http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/adapter/docs/swp/aPinOuts.html

More Explanation:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_external/ch_seri7.s...



Here is some Serial Communications Code in VB
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/articles/2260.shtml

http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~bill/pdf/Io_ch26.PDF
http://www.imakenews.com/labtech/e_article000151001.cfm

http://pub13.ezboard.com/fvisualbasicexplorervbsourcecode.showMessage?topicID=19...  

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