On Wednesday 23 June 2010, Thom Paine wrote: >I'm posting this to the list because I am hoping I can do this in linux > not only for free, but also with greater functionality. > >I am looking at this software http://www.taltech.com/products/comfile.html > to be able to read data off a serial input. > >I have a printer in my comm center that tracks our 911 calls. We are >currently spewing the data to tractor fed paper and while not only > jamming, it sometimes runs out of paper and people don't notice it for a > while. > >I'd like to be able to read this data from the RS232 port, and have it > write to a file. I'd like to be able to archive the data based on dates. > I'm sure I can do this with cron. > >Is anyone else on the list capturing RS232 data, and logging it? > >Thanks. > I'm not familiar enough with your data flow, but it seems to me you should be able to use the 'tee' function in there someplace. See 'man tee' -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Nietzsche -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines