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- From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
- Subject: Re: perl for MSDOS communication tasks
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- References: <1992Aug18.131934.9279@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:21:30 GMT
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- vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
-
- >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...
-
- >anyone tried any of this?
-
- MSDOS services the COM ports by polling them, not by setting up an interrupt
- service routine for them. So you should expect to lose data.
-
- >------
- >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
-