capturing output from device

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 03:54:24 EDT 2006


On 4/29/06, Viktoras Didziulis <viktoras at ekoinf.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to read data from usb, serial or parallel
> ports directly from within a stack? I have a GPS receiver connected to my PC
> and need to capture and preprocess data it is sending once per second. Is
> this possible in transcript or should I mix tools and languages do do this?


Serial works fine, USB can't be done, although a USB-serial adapter
will work fine. I don't know about parallel. If you need some
pointers, there is a stack on my web site for testing serial input &
output.

<http://www.troz.net/Rev/tutorials/SerialTest.rev.gz>

HTH,
Sarah



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