many thanks! i'll try all your solutions to find the best one! On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Alex Nikitin <niksoft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Real question is > why in the world would you want to use PHP for this to begin with. I > mean sure you can write your own vfat implementation in PHP, etc, etc, > but it doesn't mean that it's a good idea to do so. i know i can write something in c or c++ then use shell_exec, but this's just an experiment to test PHP vs COM/LPT On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Talking in and out of the serial port is not too difficult but is OS > dependent, so what are you wanting to run on? i'll test both win and linux with a sort of xPlataform script :) regards, viper -- + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments + http://vipertechnology.dyndns.org/cotnact/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php