Hi, I have written a C program in Turbo C to load BITMAP image and now i am trying to send it over serial port. Kindly Help me how to send that image data which i already loaded in memory over serial port using OUTPORTB or BIOSCOM ?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <mem.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <dos.h>

#define COM1 0x3F8

typedef unsigned short word;
typedef unsigned char byte;
typedef unsigned long dword;

typedef struct tagBITMAP              /* the structure for a bitmap. */
{
  word width;
  word height;
  byte *data;
} BITMAP;



void fskip(FILE *fp, int num_bytes)
{
   int i;
   for (i=0; i<num_bytes; i++)
      fgetc(fp);
}


void load_bmp(char *file,BITMAP *b)
{
  FILE *fp;
  long index;
  word num_colors;
  int x;

  /* open the file */
  if ((fp = fopen(file,"rb")) == NULL)
  {
    printf("Error opening file %s.\n",file);
    exit(1);
  }

  /* check to see if it is a valid bitmap file */
  if (fgetc(fp)!='B' || fgetc(fp)!='M')
  {
    fclose(fp);
    printf("%s is not a bitmap file.\n",file);
    exit(1);
  }

  /* read in the width and height of the image, and the
     number of colors used; ignore the rest */
  fskip(fp,16);
  fread(&b->width, sizeof(word), 1, fp);
  fskip(fp,2);
  fread(&b->height,sizeof(word), 1, fp);
  fskip(fp,22);
  fread(&num_colors,sizeof(word), 1, fp);
  fskip(fp,6);

  /* assume we are working with an 8-bit file */
  if (num_colors==0) num_colors=256;


  /* try to allocate memory */
  if ((b->data = (byte *) malloc((word)(b->width*b->height))) == NULL)
  {
    fclose(fp);
    printf("Error allocating memory for file %s.\n",file);
    exit(1);
  }



  fskip(fp,num_colors*4);

  /* read the bitmap */
  for(index=(b->height-1)*b->width;index>=0;index-=b->width)
    for(x=0;x<b->width;x++)
      b->data[(word)index+x]=(byte)fgetc(fp);

  fclose(fp);
}



void main (void)

{

BITMAP bmp;
char data;

clrscr();

load_bmp("arrow.bmp",&bmp);

/*outportb(COM1, data); How to send Image data over serial port
which is already loaded in memory */

free(bmp.data);


getch();
}

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download the ATENUSB to serial bridge driver.Install it on your PC.After this you check in HardwareManager/Device MAnager ur serial port is been detected.Now to communicate you require Console which is capable for doing your needs.Some consoles are Termite,Putty,Minicom

it is better to use inpout32.dll for x86 architecture (from logix4u) and use other advance IDE (like codeblocks, dev c++, eclipse) they are best than turbo c .

Simplest? Use fopen() w/ binary write flag on the device name (COM1, COM2, etc), and then simply write the data to the file descriptor. I leave the actual coding to you as an exercise.

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