Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:14:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, randal@comtest.com, dufault@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver Message-ID: <199807220714.AAA00856@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:53 %2B0200." <3229.901088573@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <199807212317.QAA02618@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > > > >Randal, I think this just might be your lucky day. 8) > > > >> I have a new GPIB driver that supports National products AT/GPIB and > >> GPIB/TNT. I believe it to be significantly better than the one > >> currently included in FreeBSD-2.2.6 (in /sys/i386/isa/gpib.c). > > Now, I havn't worked with GPIB since my days at Commodore, but just a > few days ago I talked to a lab-programmer, and he was very interested > in a "serious GPIB" interface, in particular if it came with a non-C > interface for script people like him. Do you have anything that would > allow the use of this driver from shell/tcl/perl/whatever for people > like him ? You could almost certainly write something using the binary I/O capabilities of Tcl8 to deal with this. Or a Tcl extension writer (*wave*) could be contracted for a nominal consideration to produce an extension suitable for the job. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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