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+comport - PD external for unix/windows to use the serial ports
+
+ (c) 1998-2005  Winfried Ritsch (see LICENCE.txt)
+ Institute for Electronic Music - Graz
+
+on Windows the COM0, COM1, ... are used and 
+under Unix devices /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, ...
+and new on unix /dev/USB0, ... and can be accessed via a Index.
+
+Please see testcomport.pd for more help.
+
+USE: There should be a external comport.dll for windows, comport.pd_linux for linux and so on.
+
+just copy it to the extra folder of your pd Installation or working directory. 
+Please see testcomport.pd for more help.
+
+compile:
+
+ Unix (Linux):   
+  make pd_linux,  make pd_irix5, make pd_irix6
+  should produce a comport.pd_linux, ....
+  
+
+ Windows: use nmake or just use Fast Build under MSVC++
+   nmake pd_nt 
+
+
+If you have improvements or questions feel free to contact me under
+ritsch _at_ iem.at