From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T04:32:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to HyperTerminal

On Feb 18, 2008 8:21 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> You can talk directly to a serial port using Ruby... I understand that
> you've already written scripts for HT, but is there any compelling
> technical reason for using those?  I think you'll have less pain porting
> your scripts to Ruby than trying to interact with HT.

Can you recommend good (working) free serial comm lib for ruby that
works on windows?
Last time I checked I could find only commercial ones.

Thanks.

And to not totally hijack this thread: I agree that rewriting could be
better that working with HT.
However, if OP wants to go this way and *everything else fails*,
AutoIt might be the way - there's a dll
that you can call from ruby (the cons are: too much work, too many
layers/wrappers).