On 11/7/10 9:18 AM, Larry Walker wrote:
I am trying to read data from a "serial port" (using a USB-serial adaptor).
Glad to see this here Larry. Just to fill everyone in, Larry and I have been going around with this issue for about a week in the tech queue without success (and I really appreciate his patience, he's been incredibly reasonable about it.) I asked Mark Waddingham about the problem and he said that basically the serial commands haven't been changed since their initial implementation back in MetaCard, and that any device that represents itself as a serial device should work with "open file" (but not necessarily with the device name returned by the drivernames. Use "modem:" or "printer:" instead.) He also said that they have never been reworked to support OS X; they were originally written for OS 9 and have always continued to work in OS X, so the code hasn't been examined.
Eric's comment that it works in 4.0 and not in 4.5 is something I don't think the team knows about. Since serial access hasn't changed in the engine, there must be some other change that peripherally affects serial port access. If that's so, then a bug report in the QCC would be in order.
I hope either Sarah or Phil will see this, since they are the serial/USB experts here. Maybe they have some comments to add or a workaround they've discovered.
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