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
> 
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