[Wylug-help] sending to a serial port.

[Jonathan Bramble]

Dear Doug,

I needed to do the same thing with a microscope stage controller for a high powered ultraviolet laser writing system.  This system had a 9 pin serial input. 
I tried minicom which looks similar to windows hyper-terminal, it was unsuccessful for me but I never found out why.
In the end I wrote a simple java program and used RXTXcomm library (see http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/  and http://rxtx.qbang.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for examples)
This was quite simple with only a basic understanding on java. 
It might be a little over the top for just testing, but I ended up using java for the entire control program and was pleased with the results. 
I have some code if you want to try this out for your system. 

Jonathan 
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From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk [wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Douglas G Mckendrick [douglasg.mckendrick at googlemail.com]
Sent: 28 June 2009 17:57
To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
Subject: [Wylug-help] sending to a serial port.

Hi all,
I'm wanting to send and receive cnc programs from my laptop to a machine
at work.  It is a 25 pin on the machine, so I have a cable with 25 pin
to 9 pin, then a cable 9 pin to usb.  I'm not sure how I will go about
sending and receiving with linux.
Is there something similar to windows hyperterminal I could use?  Or can
anyone recommend some software for the job?

Thanks

Doug


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