> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:33:23 GMT
> From: "Dave Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [U2] terminal on universe
>
> I need to collect data from a phone switch, i want to run a phantom that can capture
> a line at a time form the switch and write it to a transaction file and then run a
> bp to parse it the items into
> a data base then create reports on phone calls for management reports. we are a
> telemarketing company. now we are re-keying the information in to the computer
This is really easy with a very short perl script. I do it all the time with my truck
scales. There is a perl module for windows serial handling, and a different one for
unix, so get the appropriate
one. After that it's just:
use Device::SerialPort 0.05;
my $file = "/dev/ttyS0";
my $obS0 = Device::SerialPort->new ($file) || die "Can't open $file: $!";
$obS0->baudrate(9600);
$obS0->parity("none");
$obS0->databits(8);
$obS0->stopbits(1);
$obS0->handshake("none");
$obS0->write_settings;
$loc = $obS0->input;
(etc)
Then just write it out to the file system in your favorite perly way. You could even
do some text processing of the data in perl first.
-mark
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