Hey everyone

I want to make a learning remote control program for my PC, using its infra-red port, but I don't know how to send and receive data from COM ports.

I have set up my PC so that infra-red is on COM2, and I know that communicating with the port is exactly the same as with any other serial communications port.

I want to know how to send and receive data (byte at a time) using COM (serial) ports. What I really need is a function that takes a character (because they're one byte) and transmits it through the serial port and another that returns a single character.

I'm using VC++6 and I know nothing about MFC. I know a little STL and all language constructs. It doesn't matter if any code posted is in C or C++ but it must work on WinXP. I've looked at other sites and in the MSDN library but either can't find what I'm looking for or I don't understand it. I'm only a beginner at C/C++. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.