[Sussex] cash drawer programming

[Dominic Clay]

For anyone else who might be interested... this howto seems to be very
thorough and readable :)

http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html

Dominic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Clay" <dominic.clay at beddowsbooks.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] cash drawer programming


> Jim,
>
> Whilst I _am_ fascinated by what you say, an it sounds more or less what I
> am looking for.  I really am a newbie at this kind of thing.
>
> I dont want to be spoonfed :) but could you point me at a good location to
> read a little about simple serial port programming.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominic
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Nicholson
> To: 'LUG email list for the Sussex Counties'
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [Sussex] cash drawer programming
>
>
> Dominic,
>
> It looks easy enough.
>
> If you can get the RS232 one, all you need to do is take a Cat5 cable,
hack
> one end off and solder the correct wires to a DB9 or DB25 female connector
> as appropriate for your PC.  Configure the serial port as it says in the
> manual. In your application you just open /dev/ttyS0 or whatever port
you're
> using, write something to it and then close it.
>
> The pulse operated one is slightly more complicated (but not much). You
> could use one of the outgoing handshake lines on a serial port to drive a
> relay or similar to switch 12V from your PSU to the appropriate pin and
wire
> the sense pins to drive an incoming handshake lines on the serial port.
You
> open the /dev/ttyS0 (or ttyS1 as appropriate) port and then do an ioctl()
> call to set the handshake lines, there is also an ioctl() to read the
> handshake lines.
>
> I did something like this a few years ago at work on a Solaris box, I dare
> say I can have a dig around in the man pages for the exact ioctl calls to
> make if you need it.
>
> Jim
>
>
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