Re: Serial Port Programing

From: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:35:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Serial Port Programing
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Mark wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:36:07 -0500, Brian C. Doyle wrote:
Hello all, Does PHP have the ability to control a serial port? I see we can use the Printer but that was All I saw.
I don't know about windows but on linux I guess you would just fopen /dev/ttyS0 and read or write to it.
Make sure your serial interface supports hardware flow control. PHP is not enough for handling software flow control... (Almost all serial interface supports h/w flow control, though :) -- Yasuo Ohgaki

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