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Subject: Re: sensor on serial com timing problem under Win > 98
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:52:57 +0700
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On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 19:17 +0200, Dieter Blaas wrote:
> Hi, 
>    I have a temperature / humidity sensor that sends frequency 
> modulated data to the com port. The program collecting them 
> runs under DOS (up to Win98). I can run two DOS Windows 
> with two sensors without any problems from within Win98. 
> 
> Migrating to WinXP, I have tried to emulate DOS with DOSBox, 
> VirtualPC, and VMWare but in all cases the data are wrogly 
> interpreted in that the values are unreliable. This appears to be 
> a timing problem. 
> 
> Does anybody know whether DOSEmu under Linux would do 
> the job correctly? I am a LINUX beginner and would only try it 
> when there is a good chance of success.....
> 

I have a dos application connected to electronic weighing indicator
through serial port. The application works flawlessly under dos emu. 

Just tell dosemu how to map the serial port in the dosemu.conf:

$_com1 = "/dev/ttyS0"

Good luck!