On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:57:21 +0200 Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > reading the serial port is probably provided by the /dev/ttyS* device files.. read up on the serial tty driver in linux. Then i suppose you can use std file processing in perl [i dont use perl, but i heard it's rather complete :)]. The last thing you need is a file player which can be remote controlled. Either just launch aplay processes from the perl script, or use xmms remote controlling for example.. > > Regards, > Florian Schmidt or produce alsa seq events which can then be routed to any number of softsynths, sample players, etc.. flo -- Palimm Palimm! Sounds/Ware: http://affenbande.org/~tapas/