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SerialPortOnWin32Story

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Windows serial support is pretty questionable. Several necessary functions aren't implemented yet. And it needs to be tested out with the devices.

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For some reason the non-blocking support was in there, but is current commented out. I guess the best way to find out why it was removed is test it out with different devices that use non-blocking and see what happens.

[At this time, I don't think we have any device drivers that use non-blocking serial I/O. It would be good to have it working just for the sake of having a complete implementation, but testing it may require writing some new code. --PH]

There are several functions that are really quick to put in (1 windows call). But some of the other ones look like they don't have a windows counterpart.

Also, all of the testing I'm doing current is only taking place on w2k machines. How important is the testing of 95/98/Me machines? I found some references to a buffer-overflow bug in 95/98/Me. I don't have access to any pre-2k machines to test on at the moment.

[Since we require Visual Studio 7 for compiling on Windows, Windows 95 and 98 will never be supported. Personally, I don't care about Windows ME, but that's just my opinion. We should focus on the systems that we have for now. --PH]