On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
>
> But since I have WINE to play with perhaps I'll just have both
> apps use the same database. The only thing I'm really concerned
> about is syncing the damn thing (the pilot) under linux. The WINE
> config file has options to specify what devices the com ports use, so
> I thought maybe Windows apps that access the com port would
> work (I was originally skeptical about that)
>
This mail comes to you by way of a windows program that thinks it's
using com4 at 38400. Actually it is using /dev/cua3 at 115200... so to
some extent it does work, at least if the app uses the windows comm api
calls for modem control and modem status and so on. If it tries to
probe the hardware directly, it is likely to get frustrated and/or
confused. Juno does, if I misplace the juno.ini file that tells it
what and where the modem is as if it had already probed it
successfully, which it never has. I did some of the code for 16-bit
serial comms, so I'm familiar with that area. I think a lot of the
win32 serial stuff actuallly uses the 16 bit api internally, too.
If you can figure out how to tell your app not to probe the hardware
you may have better success with that. I think there is _some_ spport
for (simulated) direct hardware access if you use the [ports] section
of wine.conf, but I've never tried it. As I remember it, juno made a
hash of setting up the modem in windows 3 as well, but that was a long
time ago.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
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