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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:25:11 +0100
From: Jason Pearce <jason DOT pearce AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Using Perl to access serial ports
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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?

Reini - you suggested adding cygwin support for Device::SerialPort would 
be the easiest route. Do you still recommend this? I am not very 
familiar with Windows API library, but could I just use Win32::API to 
call some already existing entry points in Windows?

Regards,
Jason







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