From owner-freebsd-java Tue Feb 19 23:29: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mgr1.xmission.com (mgr1.xmission.com [198.60.22.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79DF37B405 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:29:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr1.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16dRBW-00015f-00; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 00:29:03 -0700 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1K7Svr87931; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:58:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:58:57 +1030 From: Greg Lewis To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial ports under BSD/Java Message-ID: <20020220175856.C87848@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20020214142754.B52587@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020215042133.A65428@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020215132714.A60496@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020215132714.A60496@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:27:14PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:27:14PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:21:34AM +1030, Greg Lewis wrote: > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:27:54PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > | > Has anyone tried to send simple text to a serial port with BSD and Java? > | > > | > I'd like to do a simple instrument control app in Java, but I have to be > | > able to use the serial port. > | > | This should be doable. Look at the Java Comm API. There is a port of > | this, look in the PR database (there might be an older version that has > | been committed, not sure). > > So is this an API, a port, or a bug? ;-) Its an implementation of the API for FreeBSD. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/31689, which will hopefully be committed one day :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message