Re: Need to open cash drawer in QB45

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:54:07 -0500, "Stephen J. Rush"
<sjrush@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:13:21 -0400, Webfoot wrote:
>
>> I wrote a POS system many years ago (possibly the first computer POS)
>> that I am still using today.  I now have a electric cash drawer.  I
>> want to send a signal out the serial ****t to open the drawer after a
>> sale.  Any ideas on the best way to do this in QB45?
>> 
>> I used to know this but the information is now lost.
>
>Look in the QuickBasic online help for OPEN COM, which lets you open a
>serial ****t like a file, with some extra parameters.  I've long since
>moved from QuickBasic / DOS to FreeBASIC under Linux, so I don't know
>whether Windows will let a user program talk directly to t serial ****t.

From a DOS Box, yes.  At least under Win9x.  Don't know about any
version of NT.
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