| From: | Xavier Messersmith |
| Date: | 25 Jan 2001 at 14:55:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Stuck with an idea - rexxserdev.library |
On 25-Jan-01, Andrew Bruno wrote:
> Folks, I bought a DMM with an RS-232 output.
I wonder what a DMM is.
> My idea is to write a scrip to show / log the data.
>
> So I dug up the rexxserdev.library and started to do things.
>
> Alas it came to a crashing halt.
>
> Obviously there is a problem with the serread() bit.
>
> Now, a problem:
>
> The length of the "data stream" is variant. It goes up to 15 characters and
> down to.... (who cares)
>
> I discovered that you send a C/R to the DMM and it spits out a line. Waits
> for another C/R and then puts out another line of data.
>
> Fairly simple if you ask me.
>
> That is why the '0A'x is sent first.
>
> Alas I still don't get back a reply.
>
> In my comms program I can see the reply comming back.
>
> The DMM has a TX/RX indicator and I see them flashing if I comment out the
> read() bit.... I just send 10 0a's... It blinks.
>
> Can anyone please help me?
The RexxSerDev.library is dangerously buggy. Otherwise I might have my
computer controlling X10 right now.
If all you want to do is log I'd suggest pulling NComm off AmiNet (but try not
to do much with the script language, also buggy (its so hard finding a stable
serial interface!!))
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