INtime® 3.1 Software - tenAsys

Appendix A: INtime software system calls
System call
SetCommMask
SetCommState
SetCommTimeouts
TransmitCommChar
WaitCommEvent
WriteComm
Description
Specifies a set of events to monitor for a communications
device.
Configures a communications device according to the
specifications in a device-control block.
Sets the time-out parameters for all read and write operations
on a specified communications device.
Transmits a specified character ahead of any pending data in
the output buffer of the specified communications device.
Waits for an event to occur for a specified communications
device.
Writes data to a communications device.
COMM Drivers
System call
comedgeport.rta
compc.rta
comrocket.rta
Description
Driver for the Digi International Edgeport line of USB
multi-channel serial device.
Driver for the onboard PC COM ports.
Driver for the Comtrol family of RocketPort serial multi-channel
PCI cards.
COMM Utlities
System call
comlist.rta
Description
Displays the name and status of all COM ports.
COMM Structures
System call
COMMCONFIG
COMMPROP
COMMTIMEOUTS
COMSTAT
DCB
Description
Contains information about the configuration state of a
communications device.
Used by GetCommProperties to return information about a
given communications driver.
Used in SetCommTimeouts and GetCommTimeouts to set and
query the time-out parameters for a communications device.
The parameters determine the behavior of ReadComm and
WriteComm operations on the device.
Contains information about a communications device. This
structure is filled by ClearCommError function.
Defines the control setting for a serial communications device.
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