Wine NT Services / Serial Port

[Richard Scheffenegger]

Hi!

Well, Wine reports (with +comm,+file) right after you activate the GPS
add-on, that the program initializes the com ports...

However, the parameters of the port never get set, I also suspect, that
these 5 dlls responsible for the gps relaying don't get activated...

Is there a way to "pre-load" them (if they are supposed to run as service,
they should probably be loaded all the time, right? )?

Anyway... Tomorrow I'll buy a non-MS software; hopefully they implemented
the NMEA protocol within the same exe and only 10 k code, instead of M$ 1,5
MB/5 files....

If it's not working out, I'll be back here! ;)

Richard

<lawson_whitney at juno.com> wrote in message
news:20011209.120201.134660752.0.lawson_whitney at juno.com...
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Richard Scheffenegger wrote:
>
> Huh?  Wine reports what you tell it (with --debugmsg) to report.
> If you are saying --debugmsg +comm shows that, there might be hope.
> try:
>
> wine --debugmsg +file,+comm blah.exe 2>&1 | tee logfile
>
> Basic serial IO works, though the app may get hardware flow control when
> it doesn't want it (this is in the process of being fixed).
>
> If the stupid app expects to find the comm port with DUN, RAS, or TAPI
> you are welcome to figure out what those are 'spoze to do and make up
> patches to implement one or more of them.
>
> I helped a bloke in Australia get one of those GPS things working maybe
> a year ago.  Maybe it was 2.  Probably not an NT version, though.
> In fact I don't think it was a M$ software at all.
> With micro$oft, newer is nastier.
>