OFF TOPIC: Re: serial connection.

1999-08-31 Thread Scott Parish
Jonas Holmberg wrote: > > The machine I used had about twenty serial ports and > javax.comm.CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdebtifiers() only found > /dev/ttyS[0-3] (the "internal" ports on my main board). It didn't find > for example /dev/ttyD0 which is the first "external" serial port. It did > howe

Re: serial connection.

1999-08-31 Thread Nathan Meyers
Wayne wrote: > > Hello, > Sometime ago I seen an API for serial connection, but when I went > to the blackdown site I couldn;t find anything. Does anyone know > if such a API exist? I need to write some code that talks to a CNC > machine. Check out http://www.frii.com/~jarvi/rxtx/index.html Nat

Re: serial connection.

1999-08-31 Thread Jonas Holmberg
Hi, I think what you're looking for is the JavaComm for Linux (http://www.interstice.com/~kevinh/linuxcomm.html). I've tried it very recently (talking to a modem through /dev/ttyS0) and rxtx version 1.3-4 worked fine with Redhat 6.0, except I didn't get it to find all of my serial ports. The mac

Re: serial connection.

1999-08-31 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
Waynem There is the Sun Comm API, which is the Java-side. There are a couple of native libraries that can be used with the API. I have unfortunately lost the URL for the GPL version. A good commercial version can be found at www.serialio.com. -Tom Wayne wrote: > > Hello, > S