Hi all

Sorry for this being a little off topic:

I am talking to my 8051's via a RS232 connection, to a DOS based host (I am writing this - in DOS to assure it is only single tasking) however I would like to set some timeouts etc for the incoming data.

DOS does not have any means for me to have an interrupt function on a timer.

I have to continually poll for the system time which has useless resolution (18.2Hz) in the 8051 I just set a 1 mSec timer running and then put as many counters as I need in there, to create timing for different events, I would like to do something similiar to this in the DOS box.

I am programming in C



Thanks for any suggestions


Regards


Marshall Brown