Re: [Boost-users] iostreams and serial ports help

Rob, Like you, I feel like a relative newcomer to boost, though I have been playing around with various libraries to suit my needs for over a year. I looked at boost::asio. For some reason it is not listed under the boost documentation lists, but it does appear to be a boost approved library. It does address the issue of blocking and non-blocking. I got most of the way into making a serial port look and behave like an ftp socket. I know this is not the same as an iostream, but it may be what you want. Warning: you have to do a lot of learning/exploring before you can effectively use asio (though I found this is true of many boost libraries). There is a tutorial and plenty of examples. BobW