From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 22 10:18:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13014 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12924; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00856; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807220714.AAA00856@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, randal@comtest.com, dufault@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:53 +0200." <3229.901088573@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:14:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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