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- From: scampi@sanity.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: ACCESS TO THE SERIAL PORT IN AREXX
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 00:31:27
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- RKolk73543 (rkolk73543@aol.com) wrote:
- : I need to be able to read and write to the serial port using Arexx.
- :
- : I have seen nothing concerning reading the port.
-
- You need an external ARexx function library to be able to play with serial
- ports, since serial port functions aren't built into ARexx. Try this one (on
- Aminet):
-
- rxser502.lha util/rexx 11K 73+Rexxserdev.library version 5.02
-
- A lot of ARexx TCP/IP dialscripts use this library. An alternative would be to
- interface with a terminal program with some sort of ARexx interface (e.g.
- term), but this is a much less efficient way of going about it if you only
- want to directly access the serial port briefly or for only a limited range of
- functions.
-
- --Mat.
-