From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-01-14T07:41:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [support - Help] Terminal Emulation with IBM / S 390.]

By: vidiv
>> I am a student-newbie to RubyForge (and Ruby language & CVS) working on a project
>> for Terminal Emulation. The dumb terminal interacts with an IBM mainframe through
>> a 'multiplexer-MUX'.
>> The s/w is currently running in 'C' on a Windows NT environment and the requirement
>> is to introduce Object Oriented concepts and C++ was the obvious choice, but
>> i came across  'Ruby' (and also Perl, Python,...etc) after i installed RH8 on
>> my PC last month. We are actively canvassing the advantages of GNU s/w and philosophy
>> and would like to simultaneously port it to GNU/Linux platform.

Have a look at this module
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=ruby-serialport



>> We saw that python has some routines for using existing C code so we dont have
>> to rewrite everything and can make modules containing functions and use it to
>> operate on files. Does Ruby have any such features. The documentation does not
>> provide deeper details so it would be nice if anyone could throw some light
>> on some of the above issues.

If you already have a C module which you want to access via Ruby, then try
http://www.swig.org/


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Simon Strandgaard