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- From: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: perl for MSDOS communication tasks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.131934.9279@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:16:50 GMT
- Sender: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
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- i know this sounds seriously warped, but has anyone used perl to do
- communication-port oriented tasks on MSDOS? since you can treat COM1:
- and COM2: as files, and do single character file IO, it should be possible
- to have a perl script doing automated communication processes like
- being a front end for a UUCP hookup, doing automated online sessions etc...
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- anyone tried any of this?
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- vic spicer, recent PERL convert/ data systems,instrument electronics and
- software person with the Time of Flight Mass Spec. Lab
- at the University of Manitoba Dept. of Physics
-