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Re: Using Perl to access serial ports
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 22:04:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: Using Perl to access serial ports
- References: <428E2B87.9040008@ieee.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 20 19:25, Jason Pearce wrote:
> There was some recent discussion about serial ports and Perl.
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00013.html
>
> But I did not see any resolution.
> Did anyone end up porting either Win32::SerialPort or Win32API::CommPort
> as Reini suggested?
>
> I need to talk to a thermometer via a serial link. The protocol is not
> very complex.
> Could I just use a system call to stty to set the baudrate and then pipe
> the thermometer comand to /dev/ttyS0 and read the response from
> /dev/ttyS0 using file handles?
Why don't you try it?
Corinna
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