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in reply to Accessing Serial port on windows and Linux

Win32::SerialPort for Win32 and Device::SerialPort for linux. Common interface.

my $PortObj; if ( $^O =~ m/Win32/ ) { require Win32::SerialPort; $PortObj = new Win32::SerialPort ($PortName, $quiet, $lockfile) or die "Can't open $PortName: $!\n"; } else { require Device::SerialPort; $PortObj = new Device::SerialPort ($PortName, $quiet, $lockfile) or die "Can't open $PortName: $!\n"; } # theoretically do same stuff on Win32 or Linux with same method calls

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Re^2: Accessing Serial port on windows and Linux
by kranthi (Sexton) on May 27, 2008 at 07:45 UTC
    Hi thankyou for your reply. for this do i need to download and install Win32::SerialPort, if so can u please let me know the procedure for the same. I am using Active perl 5.10.0 Build 1002.