Chapter 11. Communications
The communications portion of the Win32 APIs handles both parallel and serial communications through the computer's ports. It also handles an interface to the telnet portion of the TCP/IP package, which you install in the Network applet of the Control Panel. Using the communications capabilities of Windows, you can talk to modems and other serial devices, printers and other parallel devices, and other computers acting as telnet servers on the network.
We will not be covering Serial Device Drivers for Microsoft Windows 2000 in this book. However, be aware that in Microsoft Windows 2000, the serial driver will support both Plug and Play and Power Management. The Windows 2000 serial bus driver, Serial.sys, is now Plug ...
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