On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Paul Burkett wrote:
> No, the default setting is 9600 I did a test with it
> by making a loop on the serial devices, it seems that
> the camera can only take characters at a delayed input
> rate, that's why it worked in 'tip' is because I typed
> it character-by-character. I did an 'echo' command in
> solaris and it did not work with one line but if I
> type it:
>
> echo "@" >>/dev/term/a [enter]
> echo "2" >>/dev/term/a [enter]
> echo "2" >>/dev/term/a [enter]
>
> it worked!
How odd. You could try sleeping between prints:
foreach my $c (split //, $string) {
print SERIAL $c;
sleep(1);
}
A second is quite a bit of time to wait in a program, so you may want to use
Time::HiRes and usleep for a few milliseconds.
Michael
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