From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 6:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD7114C4F for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11lCMU-000CbW-00; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:35:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA17169; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:35:06 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:35:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: osiris2002@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Patient Monitoring !! In-Reply-To: <86g0yguygg.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Joss Roots writes: >> >> They all have SERIAL PORT communication. My question, is it possible >> to find some software to get these values, and curves out of these >> machines, and display/save/interpret them on a FreeBSD machine ? >> I'm working on something similar myself, only not in the medical field, and using Windows, of course.. :( The owner's manuals to the equipment may give a protocol in the appendix, or something similar. Usually they are simple ascii commands and strings. SOmetimes handshaking can be tricky, but often they have routines to get you started, or customer support may be of help. Is it worth the trouble to switch all this to FreeBSD? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message