Re: serial port access

no, popen is for opening a process pointer to an external executable. One other thing i guess i forgot to add but may be obvious; I am working with this on linux, but will eventually want it to work on windows as well. > popen? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <jasonr@argia.net> > To: <php-gtk@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:02 PM > Subject: [PHP-GTK] serial port access > > > I know this is more php and less gtk, but i have been unable to find hte answer elsewhere so > bear with me a bit :) > Does anyone know how to access a serial port from php? I recently got a portable GPS unit and > would like to interface it to a php-gtk app. I dont at the moment need to send data (though i may in > the future) the gps unit just dumps some info every second or so, whether theres anything attached > to the cable or not so its just a simple read. I've tried doing an fopen on /dev/ttyS0, but > when i call fread on the file pointer the app stops responding, no matter what length i tell it to > grab. > Any ideas? > Jason Richardson > > -- > PHP GTK Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-gtk-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-gtk-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net