Serial communication in Tiger

[Gordon Tillman]

Hi Dennis,


On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:43, Dennis Brown wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just ran into a problem that perhaps I can use Rev to solve, but  
> I don't know if I can, or where to start looking, so perhaps one of  
> you can point me in the right direction.
>
> I have a robotic glass cutting machine I built 12 years ago.  It  
> uses a serial communications port to initially program its internal  
> EPROM.  I used a Mac (since deceased) with a serial port and  
> terminal communication software to send two small files to program  
> the machine when I first built it.  Now the machine is acting up,  
> and I have replacement chips for it, but I have to program them.  I  
> use a Keyspan USB to Serial port device and driver which work with  
> a serial terminal app.  I can communicate with all the hardware,  
> but I can't control the app in the way I need to.
>
> All I need to do is send a file one character at a time to the  
> device and wait for the echo before sending the next character -- 
> piece of cake.
>
> Anyone know if I can use Rev to do this?

This should be no problem at all.  I wrote a complete driver for both  
NCS/Pearson and ScanTron (bubble-form) scanners and had to do much  
the same type of thing.  Works great on a Mac with the Keyspan adapter.

--gordon