Do you flush the receive buffer after you open the port? Are the port
settings correct (baud, stop bits, parity, etc)?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ouellet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:50 PM
Subject: Serial Weirdness
> Ok Im doing this to receive a couple of string via Serial Modem
> connection
>
> do
> {
> RecepErr = SerReceiveWait(NumRef, 1, -1);
> switch(RecepErr)
> {
> case 0:
> {
> StrCopy(strRBuff, InBuff);
> ScanComm(InBuff);
> break;
> }
> case serErrTimeOut:
> {
> return false;
> break;
> }
> case serErrLineErr:
> {
> return false;
> break;
> }
> }
> }
> while(TransmissionEnd == false);
>
> But what I receive is far from what I send...
> Does someone see a problem with the code above ?
>
> What I send:
> "UserName:Patrick Ouellet"<CR><LF>
>
> What I receive ( when I display it using FrmCopyLabel )
> �R�R�R�R�R�R�R�r
> Till I get a Fatal exception (assuming that I hit the capacity limit of
> my string... Be cause I
> loop until I find a <CR><LF> in the receiving buffer)
>
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