Ken Cornetet wrote:
>
> Win32::SerialPort
> 
> http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/alpha.html
> 
> This will let you send and receive bytes via serial ports, but AFAIK,
> there isn't any perl code for doing zmodem transfers (but then I haven't
> done a great deal of looking, either).

that will let me do basic communication and such, but wont allow file transfers 
(at least not ZModem).


> Best I remember, zmodem is not a trivial protocol to implement. It would
> be possible to write a perl implementation, but not trivial.

hmm.  thats what i was afearin'.   your link (above) was interesting.   got any 
other idears?


> Can you have your device do xmodem or ymodem transfers instead? Either
> of these would be fairly easy to implement in perl.

unfortunately not.   this particular product only has ZModem.   which kind of 
sucks, because I can't seem to get TeraTerm to work correctly, either, and so 
am forced to use HyperTerm as an interface.

It looks like I'll have to try and do this in C or VB.  which is a drag, 
because my test suites so far have been entirely in Perl.



> 
> Robert Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > i have some devices that send data files via ZModem.   i want to
> > automate the process of receiving these files for parsing via a perl
> > script.
> > 
> > after searching CPAN and other sites, i find that it's not as easy as i
> > would have thought.
> > 
> > Devices::Modem doesnt allow file transfer, and is apparently very
> > limited in the things that it can do.  mgetty/vgetty is only for *nix
> > machines.   these are the only things i can find related to modems.
> > 
> > is getting a modem connection via perl that difficult?
> > 
> > any help will be great, thanks
> > 
> > robert
> > 


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