From: Bob X <bobx@...>
Date: 2003-01-07T06:42:29+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32 Serial Port

"Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in message
news:20030106212600.GP5932@panoptic.com...
> On 2003.01.07, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
> > On 2003.01.07, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
> > > On 2003.01.07, Travis Whitton <whitton@atlantic.net> wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to access the serial port using ruby on windows? If
so,
> > > > where can I find some example code on doing so?
> > >
> > > File.open("COM1:") { |io|
> >
> > Oops, slight omission:
> >
> > File.open("COM1:", "r+") { |io|
> >
> > >     io.puts "ATDT5551212"
> > >     puts io.readline
> > > }
>
> Should have tested this before I sent it to the list.  It doesn't seem
> to work under WinXP ... not sure why, though.
>
> -- Dossy
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com
> Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
>   "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>     folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>

One thing great about the *nix side...everything is a file. Not so on
Windows.