[aklug] Minimalist serial communication

[Darren Coolidge]

Man I remember doing this in college, though we used DOS and Pascal... It
was simple as writting and reading from a port.  Here's a linux version of
doing it with a C example as well as others...

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/Serial_Linux

On Feb 17, 2017 10:21 PM, "Christopher Howard" <
christopher.howard at qlfiles.net> wrote:

> Hi list, I have this embedded project where I am trying (as much as
> possible) to use only FOSS I've compiled myself. I have this USB CDC ACM
> (i.e., serial over USB) device connected to a mips32r2 system running
> librecmc-1.3.4. With 16M of memory, the device does not have installed
> common utilities such as minicom or screen for serial comm. I managed to
> get the ACM drivers installed, which is great, but now am trying to
> figure out the easiest way to communicate with the /dev/ttyACM0 device.
>
> So, I am wondering if there is some simple way to communicate with said
> device that I have not heard of, or alternatively what would probably be
> the simplest serial communication program out there to (cross-)compile.
>
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