Using Perl to access serial ports

[Jason Pearce]

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>On May 20 19:25, Jason Pearce wrote:
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>>> There was some recent discussion about serial ports and Perl.
>>>    http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00013.html
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>>> 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?
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>Why don't you try it?
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>Corinna
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I will!
But there are that many variables when trying to get a serial link up 
(baud rates, parity, the type of flow control, the cable type), that I 
was hoping to get an idea if my expectations were at least plausible. If 
I know it should work I know to persist - but if you say "no thats not 
implemented" I know to try another method.

Regards,
Jason

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