General serial communications issues

[Scott W Gifford]

"David Purucker" <purucker at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I have tried several terminal programs (Hyperterm and TeraTerm) under
> several builds of
> Wine including Wine-20040505 and they seem to have the same generic problem.

We are using serial ports under Wine for a current project, and they
work OK (apart from a few warnings).  The machine I'm using doesn't
have X, so I haven't tried HyperTerminal or TeraTerm, but our
console-mode applications operate pretty much as expected.

I'm using two patches applied to a recent CVS.  The first is a patch
Eric Pouech recently posted:

    http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/05/0297.html

The second is a patch of my own to supress warnings when using a
pseudo-tty as a serial port:

    http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/05/0278.html

But our apps worked OK before that; they just generated some warnings.
Still, these patches might help, or at least cut down on the noise and
help you find the real error.

TeraTerm has source available, so it should be one of the easier
applications to debug.

----ScottG.