THANK YOU TED.
RUN /N C:\LCCCOM8.BAT EARLY IN STARTUP.PRG WORKS A FINE.
LCCCOM8: STANDS FOR LOAD CELL CONTROLLER ON COM8:
IT PUTS OUT AN ECHO TO THE SCREEN. I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON DEACTIVATE
WINDOWS
OR SOME SUCH FOR LATER ON.
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AND BEYOND WHEN HERE IN EUROPE MILK QUOTA SYSTEMS ARE BEING SCRAPED.
SHOULD YOU EVER TRAVEL ACROSS THE BIG POND, PLEASE ADVISE.
WILLIAM
PS, I AM SOMEWHAT DYSLEXIC. HENCE, THE BIG TEXT WHICH LETS ME SEE MISTAKES.
On 07/08/14 14:16, Ted Roche wrote:
William:
The specifics of your situation are beyond my expertise. The last I dealt
with serial communications all I worried about was whether the machine had
16550 or 8250 UARTs, as there were differences in the FIFO buffers. I've no
experience talking with a RS-232 serial port via USB. NEIHTER DO I, I USE FTDI
EVAL BOARDS AND DRIVERS.
You say that the autoexec.nt won't oblige; is there an error message or a
system log error recorded? NOTHING REPORTED.
How about creating a .BAT file with your MODE command and calling it at the
beginning of your VFP application, something like,
RUN /N ModeSet.BAT YES BLESS YOU
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Tormey <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ted the following is more precise:
win2k. mode command
mode com8: baud=9600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 dtr=off rts=on
sets up the comms to a load cell controller via Comtools, Ftdi USB to
Rs232.
Absolutely fail safe if called from the DOS command line reached from
within win2k.
Your articles states that MODE is an external command even for win2k, ie
mode.com is found in
winnt\system32. And yes, it is present.
BUT autoexec.nt will not oblige when the call in Autoexec.nt is
c:\winnt\system32\mode com8: baud=9600 parity=n data=8 stop=1 dtr=off
rts=on
or without the path ifo.
TIA
William
On 06/08/14 17:04, Ted Roche wrote:
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
Ed, I know you're kidding because the key says, "Caps Lock" when
everyone I know calls it "Cap Locks." So you were reading the key on
your
keyboard! ( or someone elses)
<g>
Actually, mine says "CapsLk" and has a caps lock symbol (⇬) with a
capital-A in in it. But it's a Chinese laptop with an IBM logo...
But William has been posting to the forum for decades, always in
upper-case, and always about VFP5, the second buggiest VFP ever (well,
unless you count VFP4!). We ought to make allowances.
William, if I have to hazard a guess from his curt posting, is trying to
control serial port settings using the MODE command for something his VFP5
app is doing. (IIRC, he works in a factory and does a lot of automation
control via VFP.)
William, I think the suggestion is to set serial port settings via the
control panel, which end up in the registry, as in this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/112841
or http://www.computerhope.com/modehlp.htm
If you're doing something else, like serial port printing, let us know a
bit more and perhaps we can give more specific suggestions.
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