From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 6:58:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pdcserver.wspa (unknown [209.149.149.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBC714E78 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pgregg@wspa.com) Received: from wspa.com (ci818172-a.sptnbrg1.sc.home.COM [24.4.115.243]) by pdcserver.wspa with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id GRWYXY5J; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:54:26 -0500 Message-ID: <36F8FDBD.DFD158D2@wspa.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:09 -0500 From: Paul Gregg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: wire feeds on com port Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking for help and/or leads on how to capture data coming in on a com port. This is a noaa weather feed from a satellite receiver which goes to a box which which has one rs232 input and about 8 rs232 outputs. I think the data just streams out whether anything is listening or not. I would like to receive this on a com port on a freebsd box and listen for key words and perform a function when it sees a particular string. Is there something in the ports that could be adapted for this or could it be more easily done in a shell script. If so what would be the command to listen to a com port from a shell. Thanks Paul sorry for the double post prevoious one in a an unrelated thread To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message