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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 22:04:41 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using Perl to access serial ports
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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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