CSerialPort Class Problem and Error 87

[AnotherProgrammer]

Hello. First, I'd like you to take a look at this post from another forum: http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?s=4f35cbebe00b8299d7c4f45da97051c1&threadid=193904 (it explains the problem with CSerialPort -- this should also be brought to the attention of the authors of the class) Anyway, I came across the exact same problem, except I was not using the class. I simply had WaitCommEvent and GetLastError() give me the same error 87 using this piece of code:

if (WaitCommEvent(hCom, &event, &obj))
{
cout << "Character Detected! ";
fsuccess = ReadFile (hCom, &data, 1, &transferred, &obj);
if (fsuccess)
cout << "Character Read! Here it is: " << data;
getch();
}
else
{
if (GetLastError() == ERROR_IO_PENDING)
cout << "Still waiting";
else
{
cout << "Fatal error: " << GetLastError();
getch();
exit(1);
}
}

As I said, the output for this program is Fatal error: 87. I should explain, this is after the COM1 port has been opened successfully for reading. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to solve this? I will be very thankful if someone could help. Thanks..

[AnotherProgrammer]

Sorry, messed up the HTML tags. Here's the link to that other post containing the CSerialPort class problems: Link to CodeGuru post about CSerialPort class problem