Re: [nottingham] Serial port data acquisition in Perl

From: Tom Bird (lists@janeway.hambule.co.uk)
Date: Mon 14 Jan 2002 - 19:03:17 GMT

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Graeme Fowler wrote:

> I'm trying to write something to dump the data off of my dive computer,
> but I'm buggered if I can make something read the serial interface :(
>
> Simple answers on a postcard, please!

This is probably ugly, evil and just totally wrong, but when I needed to
send data to the serial port to control the little LCD screen thing I
acquired, I just used /dev/ttyS0 like a file and shoved the data into
that.

It worked... 

-- 
Tom

http://www.hambule.co.uk/	tom@hambule.co.uk

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