<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE>Message</TITLE><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> I have been playing a bit with the program that Simon sent. If you have NO instrument connected to the serial port then the program can be executed without problems all the times you want. If I connect a device that responds, even if is no asked (a device that waits a command through the serial port and send an answer if the command is not allowed), I got timeout error (811). I believe the real problem is that the serial port is not used correctly. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> I mean, the program is sending out data, for some reason, maybe unexpected, the device answers, but there's no instruction in VEE that captures the answer so the read buffer is getting filled with data and this buffer has a default size of 4096 bytes. When this buffer gets full, then SICL libraries complain. Another possible cause is the handshaking, if the control lines are not used properly, then timeouts and funny errors can be got.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> I am using VEE 6.02, VEE 7.0 beta 4, Windows XP, Agilent IO Libraries M.01.01.04, I have wrote lots of applications controlling serial devices and never got random errors.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> Regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=467020806-04032004> Paco</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Simon Parfitt [mailto:Simon.Parfitt@renesas.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:37 PM<BR><B>To:</B> VRF<BR><B>Subject:</B> [vrf] RS232<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>Hello again guys,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>I have been messing round with this com port all day and it just does not work correctly.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>I have attached a simple program even this does not work all the time. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>I am running windows 2000 with vee 6.02 I have installed updated I/O drivers for it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>The error messages keep on changing!!!!!</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>I think it is a windows problem.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>Any help please guys.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=729383215-03032004>Simon</SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT size=3><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>E-mail Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer <BR><BR>This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. 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