> The problem is: how do I write the part that can communicate with the serial > port? I don't know if I can do this in Java and I have never written > software specifically for the Linux platform.
One trick that I have used in the past was to write a small C program that talked to the serial port and opened a TCP socket on localhost. I then connected to the TCP socket from my Java application using the usual java.net API (this works for the parallel port too). Skip -- Dr. Everett (Skip) Carter Phone: 831-641-0645 FAX: 831-641-0647 Taygeta Network Security Services email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1340 Munras Ave., Suite 314 WWW: http://www.taygeta.net/ Monterey, CA. 93940 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
