> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Gene Buckle wrote: > 3. I will prefer to simply open a /dev/ttyXX from my central software and > talk to my controllers then. If this is interrupt driven or not, I do > not really (want to) care about. > I expect that an Operating System like Linux will be able to give me > that functionality and does all this low level stuff by itself? > > I only want to use sme kind of API, Class, Object or set of procedures > which allows me similar things as were possible with the FOSSIL > driver: > - Buffered I/O > - Flow Control as I need (RTS/CTS, XON/XOFF, Both, None) > - Direct Control of control lines like DTR, ... > - Possibilities for monitoring fill level of buffers, to force > them to be erased (made empty), ... > > Actually, I only asked for point 3, nothing else, and if tSerial of > FreePascal > is able to give me that on LINUX. I never will touch Windows (because I want > to make my life easier, not harder), nor do I want to continue with DOS (see > points 1+2 of above). ;-) > > > Hope this clears a bit what I actually want.
Have a look at unit serial. The interface can be seen here: http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/rtl/unix/serial.pp?view=markup this is an older utility unit that isn't used much, and there is no docs. Maybe there are examples somewhere, but I don't know much about it yet. Please let me know your results. I want to play with a serial link to a microchip embedded board in the (hopefully near) future myself. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
