Serial communication in Tiger

[Dennis Brown]

Thanks Gordan,

I just found Sarah's "SerialTest.rev" stack and it can communicate to  
my device.  So I am home free now --just have to make a few  
adjustments to her stack.

Thanks also to Sarah --when you get here!
Dennis


On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Gordon Tillman wrote:

> 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
>
>
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