You know on a SUN machine I use Kermit, I belive that there is a similar
program for linux. I've installed it but I never got a chance to use it. Try
that.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Komp <john.komp at medtronic.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:24 PM
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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