I''m going to start working on a program which communicates with a special hardware using one of the com ports. But I don''t know how to do this under Win98/NT/2k. Can someone tell me how to use this ports and how I can send/recieve Strings to/from it using C++? THXALOT

Click here to see an example from Microsoft on opening a handle to COM1. The entire section is about communications I/O (you might have to click "Show TOC" to see the other pages the section).

Thank you! I''ll read it as soon as possible!