On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:03:17PM +0000, Tom Bird wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> I can't see why that's necessarily so wrong - all communication is
> via 'files' in *nix so why should doing that be so wrong?
>
> I've not looked through it, but quick search reveals the .deb
> libdevice-serialport-perl:
> libdevice-serialport-perl - Perl module for interacting with serial ports.
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Device::SerialPort
http://search.cpan.org/doc/COOK/Device-SerialPort-0.12/Device-SerialPort.html
cpan installed it without arguing, I may modify the screen script to use
it at some point in the future.
-- Tomhttp://www.hambule.co.uk/ tom@hambule.co.uk
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