hi dylan, please don't start a new thread by replying to a message. always compose a new message. you broke the keymapping thread for me.
i've noticed that outlook users are particular prone to starting threads by replying ot old messages. i'm curious -- in outlook, is it easier to reply than to start a new message? pete ps- there's a header "In-Reply-To:". if you delete that header, you'll be fine. On Wed 08 Oct 03, 10:49 PM, dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > hi- > > been playing around with using a basic stamp II to collect environmental > data with very minimal setup (CdS cell and capacitor form an RC network, RC > constant is measured by BS II) > [http://surfdavis.no-ip.com/~dylan/light_level.p2.png] > > the BSII sends its data to /dev/ttyS0, and it is read in with the > command'cat /dev/ttyS0 > tmp.light &' . data is parsed by a simple awk > script and then sent to ploticus for a nice plot. the plot is updated by > running a shell script that runs the awk sript and then ploticus. > > this works, but there is no way to associate a time with the data values. i > was thinking that if there was some way to have a bash script read from > /dev/ttyS0 every 10 seconds or so, save the value to a text file along with > a date stamp it would be pretty neat. > > the output from the BSII looks something like this: > light_level|light_level|light_level and so on (the delimiter is a pipe) > > now to the question: does anyone know how to make bash read from a file > (i.e. the serial port) from one pipe until another pipe, and then save the > value in between to a text file? > > i know this is asking a lot, but any pointers would be great! > > thanks a lot! > > dylan > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
