B. Randy wrote:
> Hello,
> Very intersting ... I'll try it late.
> Well, I suppose that you are under Win$ and you must notice that the 
> SERIAL link is a "funny" game.
> 
> 1 - Use a modem-cable, to link the two RS232 ports of your PC or an 
> other RS232 on a other PC.
> 
> 2 - Test with classics tools the communication. On Win$, there is "Hyper 
> Terminal", any other kind of tool is good. On Linux, "minicom" for 
> example. Configure the two tools : same speed, no hardware handshaking, 
> no software handshaking, same parity, same stop-bits.
> After, when you type some words in one window, you must see the text in 
> the other. At this point, your link is good.
> 
> 3 - Replace one of the tools (Hyper Terminal, minicom) by your Ruby 
> code.
> Try to send some text. I'll take the example from : 
> http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/ and make some modifications.
> 
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'serialport'
>  sp = SerialPort.new "COM1", 9600, 1, NONE
>  sp.write "Hello world !"
>  puts sp.read
> 
> You should see the text on the new window. At this point, the soft is 
> good.
> 
> You can play with a modem too.
> 
> 4 - For you HW. I don't know the kind of your HW, so I'll be "large".
> Don't forget to verify the protocol of your HW board. Some HW wants some 
> special escape caracters before and after the message, or special 
> sequence for initiate the link, or want work only in dialog mode. In 
> this later case when you send something you must read something, if you 
> don't make this the HW will block.
> 
> Sangeeta Huddar wrote:
> [...]
>> now i want to use this and access the board .i tried d simple ways i
>> could think but nothing worked :(
> [...]
>> can anyone help me with simple program to use serial.so
>> or is there any other way i can connect to board via serial port
>> thanks in advance,
>> -sangeeta

Hello,
         I installed the gem and ran the code. Message was written 
successfully. But I can't read the written data. It is waiting there. 
The device I opened was /dev/ttyS0. Help me to read the data from serial 
port.

Thanks,
Stalin .T
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