----- Original Message ----- From: "Hernan Rohner" <hhrohner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Serial port reading > John: thanks for your reply. Sorry, but i totally misexpressed myself. > > What you said is totally right, the data I'm getting ascii data through an > RS232 port. > Now the thing i have to do is the box you're telling me, that is, since I > couldn't find any hardware that makes the conversion between RS232 and LPT, > i have to do it myself with my linux box and some software to open the RS232 > port, read, close and then send that data to the LPT port (open, write, > close). > > The thing is that I wish to find out is which scripting language would be > the easiest to do that. > Thanks a lot > Regards Ok, I don't know if you can deal with any delay in your data feed or not. If you can, I've used some print spoolers in that past (mid 90's) that did serial to parallel conversions. Also check out this link: http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/products/109A.htm for Telebyte's model 109A bi-directional parallel to serial converter...I believe it's also got a small buffer which could introduce some delay. Also Lantronix makes some boxes that convert RS232 to ethernet, you could read the data right off your LAN. As far as language, I'm not a programmer but I'd guess a simple C program that polled the parallel port for data and wrote said data to a text file wouldn't be too difficult. John Guynn -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
