Accessing serial ports

[gm]

Dear all<br>
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I want to write a simple paging app (without the baggage of other apps out there).<br>
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Simply I want to open a serial port (connected to a modem) and run at commands against it.<br>
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Problem is I don't know how to access the serial ports. I need to do this both on Unix and NT,<br>
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Thanks

 

[AndyBo]

There's also a Device::SerialPort module, described as &quot;POSIX clone of Win32::SerialPort&quot;. So that covers Unix. And to go with this you've got the actual Win32::SerialPort module (which may be included in the standard Win32 perl distribution. If not, it's on CPAN for sure.)<br>
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So, it's probably gonna be a case of checking which OS you're running on and then 'use'ing the correct module for your platform.<br>
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Not got any actual experience of using either of these, but they sound like they should fit your requirements.<br>
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HTH.