The tried and tested serial communications module for Windows-based systems is Win32::SerialPort - This module, despite its 0.19 versioning, is fairly widely used and quite robust in nature, making direct use of Win32 System API calls. The documentation for this module is quite complete and there is very little that I suspect that you cannot do with this module - If you find this module insufficient, you may want to try a little Google searching before you commit yourself too heavily to this project to find other examples of Win32::SerialPort usage.

The *NIX equivalent of this module is Device::SerialPort which makes use of the termios library and is exceptionally good for serial communications.

 

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