Daniel Caetano wrote:

>  Hello All,
>
>   This weekend I received my new video capture board... and a remote
control was bundled with it.
>   There is a IR sensor which is designed to be attached to the serial
port. I connected it on Serial Port COM2. 
>The control has an IR emmiter, as any common remote control.
>   I want to develop a program to receive information from the remote
control, based in the trial-and-error approach (hit the button and verify
what is the input in the serial port), using OS/2's DosDevIOctl to COM2.
>   But I could not understand how can I do it... Every code sample
about serial port shows me a terminal program, how to comm between two
computers and so on... and I do not have a clue on how to read the data
sent by the remote control.
>   Any ideas? This could be the base for a generic OS/2 remote control
application, and define a standard remote control API so other programs
could benefit from the remote control.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  []'s
>
>  Daniel Caetano
>  
>

Hi Daniel,
Can't help I'm afraid, but maybe you could get some assistance on the 
os2ddprog [Yahoo] group?
Sounds like a very worthwhile project!

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Regards,
Mike

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