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We have a problem that has been driving us crazy for some time.
We need to know when the serial port on a PC has completed transmission of all the characters in its buffer. We are using LabVIEW 6.0.2 and Windows 9x & 2000.
In the past we have solved this by actually looking at the correct register bits in the UART but this is not really a good solution and its quite difficult in an NT/2k environment.
So is the any VI out there that can tell us this info or does anyone know of a Windows SDK call that we can use to interrogate the driver ?
Regards
Tim

Tim,
Have you looked at the "Bytes at Serial Port.VI"? LV 6: [Functions > Instrument I/O > I/O Compatibility > Serial Compatibility]
It provides you the number of bytes currently queued in the serial port buffer. If this VI fits your need, you could, for example, use its output so that when bytes equals 0, you know your complete.
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