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From: ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: help wanted using perl to connect to a serial port
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.205121.11758@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:51:21 GMT
Organization: The National Pesticide Information Retrieval System, Purdue University
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I have several serial lines from our SparcStation 2 to our mainframe 
protocol converter that I want to make available to our users from the
internet.  I want a way for a user to log in to a special user id that
will check if any of these lines are free, and if they are, make the
connection and get out of the way (with perhaps a special break char),
or tell the user that they are busy and to try again.  I might have to
provide some options so I can do some 3270 keyboard translation, etc... 

Has anyone done anything like this in perl?  I'm not sure I understand
all the issues involved, and I don't have much time to get this
implemented and would appreciate any help others can provide.

Thanks!

-Ed

Ed Ramsey ramsey@npirs.purdue.edu 317/494-6616 FAX/494-0535
NPIRS-Net Network Services Manager