noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Bamf) (03/21/90)
Given a program that just writes to the standard screen,
(using nothing more than (f)printf's) is there a relativly easy
way to route this output to the serial port, and conversely to
get input from the serial port?
Perhaps through the AUX: port, or something? Can you just
open AUX: and read and write from it, or must you do more with
the serial.device, and send requests, or however its done that
way?
Thanks,
Bamf (noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)
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In article <1990Mar21.042202.30263@uokmax.uucp> noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Bamf) writes: > > Given a program that just writes to the standard screen, >(using nothing more than (f)printf's) is there a relativly easy >way to route this output to the serial port, and conversely to >get input from the serial port? > Perhaps through the AUX: port, or something? Can you just >open AUX: and read and write from it, or must you do more with >the serial.device, and send requests, or however its done that >way? I don't know about AUX:, but I have had good luck using the UUSER: handler that comes with the AmigaUUCP1.03d distribution like this. When reading, you have to modify your code a bit because it times out and returns an error to your read() call. (either standard level 1 unbuffered I/O or AmigaDOS Read(), stdio can be made to work also). Output is no problem at all. Note that this isn't what it was meant for, but it does work. It doesn't change the port settings, so you have to do that some other way. I always ran stuff using it out of VT100v29 with the port in shared mode. I got a version of kermit working really easily using UUSER:, no fiddling with serial.device at all. AmigaUUCP is on one of the fish disks as I recall. (I FTP'ed it from somewhere, ucbvax.berkekey.edu, I think.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Tell tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. Former chief engineer, Duke Union Community Television, Durham, NC.