I have two computers hooked up through a non modem line and I am attempting
to send input from from computer to the other over the serial port and vice
vera right now in my program I open the serial port up and then I do a read
command and output that my have arrived from the other computer then i scan
in characters and write them out over the fd associated with the serial
line. Is there anything wrong with this logic and also I am still trying to
get the info to send as soon as it is typed as opposed to waiting for a
return key to be pressed
Kevin Weisser <kweisser@udel.edu> wrote:
I have two computers hooked up through a non modem line and I am attempting
to send input from from computer to the other over the serial port and vice
When you say non modem line do you mean a NULL modem line? If not
you will need a null modem in there so the TX and RX (and other control lines)
get swapped from one PC to the other.
And the simple test would be
on a cat > /dev/ser1
on b cat < /dev/ser2
and you can use
stty -a < /dev/ser1
to view information about the port to make sure they are the same baud rate and
such
Tom
Kevin Weisser <kweisser@udel.edu> wrote:
I have two computers hooked up through a non modem line and I am attempting
to send input from from computer to the other over the serial port and vice
vera right now in my program I open the serial port up and then I do a read
command and output that my have arrived from the other computer then i scan
in characters and write them out over the fd associated with the serial
line. Is there anything wrong with this logic and also I am still trying to
get the info to send as soon as it is typed as opposed to waiting for a
return key to be pressed
The sent immediately vs waiting for return to be typed is controllable.
Take a look at some of the other threads in this group, for instance
the thread that talks about raw() and unraw() and the effects they
have.
As to “typing”, if you’re not typing directly on a true serial
terminal, what is probably controlling when the characters are
sent is, actually, the input side, that is, how whatever program
is getting things from your console is setting things up. Again,
look at the raw/canonical mode for that input too.
stty can be used to control many of these settings from the
command line, instead of doing it programatically. You might
try “stty +raw” and “stty +edit” for changing modes on your
input device.
-David
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