That is a good approach. In many cases, a simple microcontroller between the Palm and
your device to control can save a lot of
time. Yes it adds a hardware element, but you can now sell that too!
Steve
shahed wrote:
> The book by O'Rielly on Palm Programming talks about some limitations
> of the Palm UART that does not allow either the DTR or the RTS
> to be set programatically (I dont remember which one).
>
> I wanted to connect a smartcard reader to the palm using the serial port,
> and setting one of the lines (DTR/RTS) would turn on the led on the
> reader.
>
> So I have given up on the palm and am now looking at TINI from Dallas
> Semi as device which would act as a bridge between the palm and the
> reader.
>
> Regards
> Shahed.
>
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