How can I read from COM port in Windows using C?

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Basically, what I want to achieve is, using Arduino on COM3 a C program in windows to recognize whether a button has been pressed or no. For that, as far as I understand, I need to understand reading from COM port. Most of the tutorials I have been able to find are UNIX specific and so far I don't feel competent enough to really understand them. So, is there anyone here who has any experience with stuff like this?

Posted 20-Sep-14 7:26am

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2014-09-20T07:40:00

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Check out the documentation: "Communications Resources" at MSDN[^].
"Using Communications Resources"[^] provides code samples.

Posted 20-Sep-14 7:40am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Sep-14 14:09pm

Was that you who recently answered on that? Good information, a 5.
—SA

CPallini 20-Sep-14 14:25pm

Yes.
Thank you.