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Serial Programming Tools

Moxa supports some easy but powerful serial programming libraries and communication troubleshooting utilities under Windows NT and Windows 95/98. It will save your developing time with the MOXA Serial Programming Tools.

The following sections will detail the installation, the library and the utilities for various platforms.

PComm, the professional serial comm tool for PC, is a software package for

Windows NT and Windows 95/98 consisting of:

a powerful serial communication library for easy programming in the most popular languages. The serial communication library is useful for developing an application for data communication, remote access, data acquisition or industrial control in Windows NT or Windows 95/98 environment. Also it is an easier solution compared to the more complex Windows Win32 COMM API,

useful utilities such as diagnostic, monitor and terminal emulator,

illustrative sample programs,

comprehensive on-line documents.

PComm Installation

To install PComm, run \Setup.exe from the diskette enclosed in the package. Please note that the PComm diagnostic and monitor utilities are for MOXA boards only; therefore, these two utilities won’t work on other serial boards but only on MOXA boards.

After PComm is successfully installed, simply click [Start] and select [Program Files] and the PComm Lite group to select a list of utilities and documents.

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