From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T06:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to HyperTerminal

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Jano Svitok wrote:
> 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.

ruby-serialport works in Windows as far as I know.  They list it as a
feature at any rate!  :D

http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/

> 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).

ooo interesting.  I'm basically completely ignorant of the Windows world
these days... I only use it when I'm programming microcontrollers with
the serial port :)  As it happens, Hyperterminal is about the only app I
use.

Ben