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From: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (Net Runner Mark V)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AREXX Serial Port Handler Sought
Message-ID: <19583@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 91 05:25:18 GMT
References: <16363@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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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.

>
>Any suggestions?
>

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>Sean Schur		    			USENET: schur@isi.edu	
>Assistant Director Amiga/Media Lab		Compuserve: 70731,1102	
>Character Animation Department			Plink: OSS259	
>California Institute of the Arts
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	Accessing the serial port via AREXX is pretty simple actually... Simply
use the OPEN function under AREXX to open the 'SER:' logical device... This
will use the preferences settings for the serial port. From then on, to write
messages to the serial port, or read messages from the serial port, use the
functions WRITECH, WRITELN, READCH, and READLN which are documented in the
AREXX manual.

	If you can be more specific in exactly the type of information you're
trying to handle and how you'd like to go about it, I could come up with an
example for you.

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James McIninch
gt1619a@hydra.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology
Applied Biology (Molecular)