On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:24 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Simon Slater wrote: > > I don't suppose someone of your ilk could point a young bloke to some > > reading on serial comms with linux boxes? I have a box of odd things > > I'd like to get going to save some manual data input (microchip reader, > > barcode scanners etc). Might even be useful when I get a GPS next year. > > I keep putting it off for a rainy day, but the drought hasn't broken > > yet. About 20 years ago did a bit with minicom and remote weather > > stations, but can't recall how I got started. > > > One thing to keep in mind when dealing with programming serial ports > is that there are two different sets of commands to deal with. Look > at the open and fopen man pages. > > If you would like to see one of my early attempts to deal with > logging data from a serial device, do a search for > cld-0.2-2.src.rpm. You might also find this link interesting... > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/meter/ > Yes, very. Found cld, will download it today, thanks for the tip. -- Hooroo, Simon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
