Re: RS232/Serial Comms

[Stefan Mahr]

John Swensen schrieb:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 28-Oct-2006, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> >
> > | John W. Eaton schrieb:
> > | > On 27-Oct-2006, Stefan Mahr wrote:
> > | > | > | You are right. Any other solution?
> > | > | > The obvious thing is a freely redistributable replacement for the
> > | > Visa32 library.  But I would guess that you were looking for 
> > something
> > | > that would be easier to do.
> > | > | | Of course :) Maybe with a server/client structure with 
> > comunication over | a socket?
> >
> > I'm not a big fan of technical gymnastics to avoid the terms of the
> > GPL.  However, see
> >
> >   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
> >
> > for more info.
> >
> > jwe
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> There is a python library at 
> http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/babur/uspp/uspp.htm that is GPL 
> and I know works because a friend uses it all the time.  It shows how to 
> do serial communications on Linux, Windows, and Mac.  All three are a 
> little different due to how each OS handles things like setting the baud 
> rate, which files actually represent the serial port, and other similar 
> things.  That being said, I don't think it would be a huge effort to 
> simply port this code from python to either M files (might have to add 
> some oct stuff for tcsetattr() calls and such) or simply porting it all 
> to oct files.
>
> John Swensen

The problem is the GPIB driver, not serial or tcp.