[olug] OT? C programming question. MORE INFORMATION

[Joe Gulizia]

Neil (off-list) wrote:

Basically, all that is important is that I am trying interface with a
serial port.  For some reason, the Receiver is set up to accept 10
characters, (9 characters for the command, and a 10th one for the
return character).  the issue is that one of the PERMCH commands
(PERMCH followed by 2 numbers) takes up 10 characters, without a return
statement.  Supposedly, there is a way around this, because you good
people at XYZ are able to change to channel 7/4 with the PERMCH
command fine, but I need to be able to embed this method in my code so
that this process may be made automated.  I think that's the simplest
way to define my problem.  If anyone knows why you guys can use the PERMCH command, I'd love to hear it, even if the code itself isn't
fixed, because then I can rewrite my code based on your solution.

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>From Joe (on list):

1)  Thanks to all who responded so far.

2)  the receiver is one of these:
http://www.ftionline.com/products/DVR_Instructions.pdf


Joe