Overview - Configuring Serial COM Ports

COBOL programs access serial COM ports by assigning the port to the output file with syntax such as:

       select output-file
          assign to "com1:"
          organization is line sequential.

In .NET managed COBOL, you can configure the serial connection to set the BAUD, DATABITS, PARITY, STOPBITS and TIMEOUT options. You can configure the serial connection in two places:

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