okay, i have a perl script that sends a text file as serial data records out an
I/O port at variable baudrates, etc..
I need to have a way to interrupt the data transmission *cleanly* (not via
CTRL-C), so that the current data string completes to the next CR/LF terminator
before stopping.
therefore, i need some sort of unbuffered input so the program can check
whether a character has been pressed (say, the ESC key), and stops the program,
otherwise it will carry on normally.
Problem is, I'm using a Windows XP box here at work. ive built the perl from
source, not using binaries.
I havent been able to get the getc() function to work as i wanted; i dont have
stty. cygwin is not an option as this is going to be used by other windows
users who just point to my perl build on a networked drive.
I have found what i think is what I need: The TERM::ReadKey module and/or the
TERM::GetKey module (which depends on ReadKey)
problem is, i can not compile the TERM::ReadKey from source. whoever wrote it
thought that Microsoft's Visual C++ was a good build environment. Since I
don't have Visual C++, my nmake always fails at the cl.exe command. I tried
spoofing it to my c++.exe and removing some switches, but then it fails on the
link.exe command. I am not a C++ programmer, so now I'm stuck.
can anyone help me out? Is there a better way to solve my original problem?
thanks
Jez
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