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From: swalton@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AREXX Serial Port Handler Sought
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.214931.10638@csun.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:49:31 GMT
References: <16363@venera.isi.edu> <19583@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V)

In article <19583@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt1619a@prism (Net Runner Mark V) writes:
>In article <16363@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>>I am interested in finding out how to access the serial port through an
>>AREXX program. I need to send certain ASCII codes through the serial port.
>
>	Accessing the serial port via AREXX is pretty simple actually... Simply
>use the OPEN function under AREXX to open the 'SER:' logical device...

Another, and better IMHO, option is to use the SerMod serial module
which Larry Phillips wrote about in an issue of the late lamented
Amiga Transactor.  This is a potentially powerful tool which has
seen too little use (including by me--too few hours in the day).