Re: How to read serial port with WIN32:SerialPort?


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Re: How to read serial port with WIN32:SerialPort?

by xiaoyafeng (Deacon)

on Apr 12, 2021 at 02:48 UTC ( [id://11131117]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to How to read serial port with WIN32:SerialPort?

Hi mastertone,

Several years ago, I did some work to connect terminal server on windows by this module. mostly Win32::SerialPort workds well, except 2 issues:

on 64bit windows box, the structure of serial port changes, if you use the modules on win64, you have to apply a patch on cpan( sorry I can't reach metacpan.)
when com port number larger than 9, you have to specify the name as this format" \\.\COM10". since I note you use COM10 in your script. Please refer to this node

BTW:this module does work done, but the author use old Win32::API which has been buggy and itself unmaintained for long time, anyone want to pick it up? I think serial port is still used widely.

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