Helge Hafting: > Linux has device drivers doing this for you already! No problem! The > device drivers handles irq's, io-addresses and buffering. A linux > program simply open a serial device as if it were a file and reads from > it and writes to it using normal stuff like fread(), fwrite(), fprintf() > etc.
I don't need it, but just out of curiosity, is there a more low-level interface available? Or would one have to write a kernel module? I'm thinking, if you need to do non-standard things with the control lines (say for a dongle). Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.