[Elecraft] K3 Cool version 6 - posted.

[David Woolley (E.L)]

ab2tc wrote:
> 
> BTW you do not need any 3rd party software to do serial I/O under 
> Windows. Standard Windows APIs like CreateFile(), ReadFile() and 
> WriteFile() are quite easy to use for serial I/O and are well documented 
> by Microsoft.

And not used by most programmers.  Programming at the Windows API level 
is considered too techie by most software development managers.  .NET 
does, I believe have limited serial support, but I think it is 
restricted to the two onboard serial ports (I wasn't involved in the 
decision process that led to having to buy a third party component, but 
certainly for .NET, and possibly for VB, but certainly they concluded 
that there was no way of supporting multiple serial ports without 
extensive use of "platform invoke" - the fact that the component exists 
suggests there is a big hole in the market where Microsoft don't 
adequately support serial comms in .NET).


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