----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 1:20 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Fwd: I'm looking for help. Re:(3) > Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] and everyone else watching this thread... > > On 24-Sep-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > r> I looked for a way to interface to a serial (com) port on the Intel version > r> of Rebol, but no such mechanism seems present; I was able to accomplish > r> this in a round-about manner by using a TCP/IP-to-serial translation > r> server. This works, but is somewhat convoluted! > > At first thought, you might want to see if you can try writing to the > com port just like a file. f.ex write/binary %/com1/a <data> > I don't know if that would work on Winblows or Unix machines, but it > does on my Amiga. (But then the Amiga treats all devices (both > physical and logical) like drives.) > > I would be interested in seeing if it works. (I tested it with these > two lines: > write %/par00/a "This is a test" > write %/prt/a "This is a test" > Where 'par00' is one of my parallel ports (IOBlix board to those > Amigans who never heard of 'par00'...) And 'prt' is the printer > driver. I got two pages from my printer, both with 'This is a test' > on the top of the pages. > > Because the target device in question for the application is a serial > port, I suggested the write/binary because most of what you would want > to send to a process control would be binary strings. (I think, but I > might be wrong there...) ;-) But then how to configure the ports, and read from them,, and accept windoze msgs that something has arrived at the port, etc... Kat
