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Re: serial ports
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: ov at vecernik dot at
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:22:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: serial ports
- References: <444868E7.7050608@vecernik.at>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. This port is
> connected via an usb-adapter and referred as COM4: on Windows. I
> couldn't find any /dev/ttySx and I'm not sure if this is even supported.
> Is this possible under Cygwin?
Definitely. If Windows sees your serial port as COM4:, "/dev/ttyS3"
should definitely work. If you're concerned that ttyS3 didn't show up
when you did "ls /dev", try "ls -l /dev/ttyS3" -- you should see the
device information.
Igor
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