Does your device require flow control? Most likely not. Make sure you turn off both hardware and software flow control. And try it again. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Komp [mailto:john.komp at medtronic.com] > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:24 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Perl - Slackware - ttyS0 > > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use a Toshiba 430 laptop loaded with Slackware 7.1 as a > debug terminal. I've been trying to use minicom with a direct > connection > to the target computer which is dumping serial data. Minicom for some > reason is only displaying some of the data but not all so I'd like to > build a much smaller program that just dumps the data arriving at the > serial port, ttyS0 to a file so I can debug the problem. I > know the data > is being sent because I can connect the cable to another > laptop running > Win95/qmodem and I get all the info sent. > > My question is how can I set up Perl to attach to ttyS0? Do I just > treat it as a file at /dev/ttyS0? > > Thanks for tolerating a newbe question, > > -John > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >