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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:57:06 -0400
From:      "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>
To:        "De la Cruz Lugo Eric" <eric@iteso.mx>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Serial communication related question.
Message-ID:  <NIEJLGLKBDJHNLKBAKPDMENGCCAA.otterr@telocity.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008111230210.38418-100000@iteso.mx>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of De
> la Cruz Lugo
> Eric
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:33 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Serial communication related question.
>
>
> A friend of mine ask me for information about programs or
> code in Unix
> that let him send plain text to a serial port /dev/ttyS0 for example
> and read plain text also from that port and save it into a
> text file.
>
> this can be done with a Shell script?, o a small c program?
> he is working right now on FreeBSD 4.0, there is any port
> he shoul use?
>
> thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Eric De La Cruz Lugo
> Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, The MayaLand.
>
I got one of the guys at work to try out expect
(/usr/ports/lang/expect). He was able to send plain text to the serial
port, but I'm not sure how receiving would work. IIRC, the expect in
ports is an older version and there is a newer version available for a
fee, with more features.
-Otter



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