From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 15:50: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E1937C078 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA49076; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:49:31 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:49:31 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Otter Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: need serial communications recommendation Message-ID: <20000803104931.A46449@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from otterr@telocity.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:32:47PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:32:47PM -0400, Otter wrote: [...] > The app I need must allow me to enter in a line of commands (maybe > two, if needed) then start a script of several commands to the serial > port upon receiving a particular character from the device. Is there > such a thing available? Would `expect' be be what you're looking for? http://expect.nist.gov/ There's a port for it under in lang/expect. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message