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I am looking into ways to communicate over the serial line from arch, am I forced to write all the program myself? The end game need is to use a program to communicate preprogramed strings to a serial device. Anyone know of a program that might let me preprogram some strings into to send out?
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What happens when you 'echo somestring > /dev/yourSerialDevice' ?
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Not sure... honestly didn't give it a ton of thought, had been writing a program for it and got kind of burnt out on programming.. figured I should double check I am not reinventing the wheel.
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minicom is a full-blown serial comm program...
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=minicom
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gtkterm good enough, if your on a GUI environment.
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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint
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Still haven't had a chance to sit down and work with this.. its going on a mini-itx board thats mounted onto a mobile platform(for robotics use). It communicates via one of its 6 serial lines to various PIC's to issue orders/check sensors. Arch of course has *way* too high of a latency to ever be used to calculate things such as balance or movement, but it is useful for bigger picture thinking.. as such, I am trying to get my mini-itx communicating to the other parts using some preprogramming serial commands.
Thus, the question. So in short, I am not in a GUI enviroment. It might at one point be controlled by a GUI(Web page) but for now, its all terminal.
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I maintain 3 rather minimal serial tools in AUR, just in case you find minicom too bulky.
But it seems you're more interested in non-interactive usage... sorry, no idea there.
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