From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T13:41:29+09:00
Subject: Windows serial port

I'm trying to talk to a Windows serial port. COM1: in fact.

Question 1. What is the best way to do this?

Question 2:
   Currently I'm trying to use
     http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/
   and getting  bizarre error message whenever I try to open a port for all
   values of port I can think of...

(eval):13: in `create': No such file or directory - (Errno::ENOENT)
   from (eval):13: in 'open'

I presume this must be in SerialPort::open

Any suggestions what to do? This is using ruby-1.8.1 on win2k

Question 3:
Anybody have a compiled version of http://grub.ath.cx/win32serial/?

Thanks,


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