Lightspoke Documentation Resource

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Serial Programming HOWTO

Gary Frerking

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Peter Baumann

Revision History
Revision 1.01	2001-08-26	Revised by: glf
New maintainer, converted to DocBook
Revision 1.0	1998-01-22	Revised by: phb
Initial document release

This document describes how to program communications with devices over a serial port on a Linux box.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Copyright Information
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. New Versions
1.4. Credits
1.5. Feedback

2. Getting started

2.1. Debugging

2.2. Port Settings

2.3. Input Concepts for Serial Devices

2.3.1. Canonical Input Processing
2.3.2. Non-Canonical Input Processing
2.3.3. Asynchronous Input
2.3.4. Waiting for Input from Multiple Sources

3. Program Examples

3.1. Canonical Input Processing
3.2. Non-Canonical Input Processing
3.3. Asynchronous Input
3.4. Waiting for Input from Multiple Sources

4. Other Sources of Information

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		Introduction

This resource is mirrored from the Linux Documentation Project. It was posted as a resource for all. Courtesy of Lightspoke: The web-based database company.

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