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Subject: RE: serial ports
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:52:41 +0100
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On 22 April 2006 06:26, David Christensen wrote:

> Oliver Vecernik wrote
>> I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook.
> 
> Try the Win32::SerialPort Perl module:
> 
>     http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/SerialPort.html
> 
> 
> I used it in the past and it worked great, but I had to use ActiveState Perl
> rather than Cygwin Perl.
> 

  Well then, that's a really good argument for just using the builtin access
that cygwin provides through /dev/ttySx instead, isn't it?  The way Oliver's
original post reads suggests that he was just thrown off by not seeing any
devices under the virtual /dev dir, but that doesn't mean it won't work for
him if he tries it.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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