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Subject: Re: Comm API: development proposal
In-Reply-To: <376F5A77.34983A5B@ulb.ac.be> from Jean-Michel DRICOT at "Jun 22, 99 11:42:15 am"
To: jdricot@ulb.ac.be (Jean-Michel DRICOT)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:13:04 -0600 (MDT)
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Have you looked at Central Data's portio package?  Not sure of the web address,
but it should work.  Haven't tried it on FreeBSD yet, but intend to soon.

Its serial I/O as far as I know.
> I dowloaded last week JAVA's Comm API on SUN's site, because I needed
> Serial & Parallel port functions under JAVA.
> As always for that kind of API, I looked after the machine-specific JNI
> interfaces & drivers and found one for Linux but none for FreeBSD.
> 
> Is there actually a project about the porting of this API ?
> 
> If not,  I'd like to build my own driver from scratch or try to port the
> Linux JNI to FreeBSD and make it available for the whole FreeBSD
> community.
> A friend of mine is also very interested in that project and he's a
> rather high skill developper in Linux.
> 
> My porting team is complete :-) . Drop me a line if you'e interested in
> that project
> 
> Jim
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> "Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who it's friends are."
> 
> Dricot Jean-Michel
> 3rd year study in Computer & MicroElectronic Engineering
> Polytechnic School
> Free University of Brussels (ULB)
> 
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> e-mail: jdricot@ulb.ac.be
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