Introduction - Contec COM-2(PCI) User Manual

1. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing this PCI bus RS-232C communications
board.
This PCI bus board is an interface board for serial data transfer with
external devices. The board is installed in one of the PC's PCI bus
slots or in a PCI bus unit. Please read this manual carefully before
implementing in a system (such as developing application programs
or connecting to external devices).
Use of this board requires either driver software from CONTEC or
your own driver software that accesses the I/O address directly.
Support software provided with the board
COM-DRV(W32) ..... Standard COM serial communications
This is the same software as described in API-PAC(W32).
This software enables the board to be used in the same way as the
PC's COM ports (standard COM).
By adding additional boards, ports COM1 to COM256 can be
installed.
This enables serial communications for purposes such as remote
access service (RAS) and uninterruptable power supplies (UPS).
The software supports the standard Win32 API communication
routines.
Visual Basic communications control is supported.
driver software for Windows 2000, NT, Me,
98 and 95
COM-2(PCI), COM-4(PCI), COM-8(PCI)
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